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The U.S. National Science Foundation on Thursday announced it will close down the massive space telescope at Puerto Rico's Arecibo Observatory, ending 57 years of astronomical discoveries after ...

AUS-based startup, Reflect Orbital, has proposed a groundbreaking plan to provide “sunlight on demand” by using satellites to ...

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