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12 March 2019
UK becomes home to the HQ of the new international organisation behind the World's biggest ever radio telescope: At a treaty signing in Rome today the UK has formally become the home of the new international organisation behind what will soon be the World’s biggest ever radio telescope – the Square Kilometre Array (SKA).

15 February 2019
US-UK-Australia funding to improve global gravitational wave network: A global network of gravitational wave observatories will be upgraded to almost double its sensitivity, the lead science funding agencies of the United Kingdom and United States announced today.

07 February 2019
Central Africa's first ever research-class astronomical observatory moves a step closer: Kenya could soon host the only research-class observatory in equatorial Africa, thanks to a collaboration between the nation and the UK.

Last updated: 19 April 2018

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