With PRIMA, NASA will try to build a billion-dollar space telescope in record time

The first in a new class of space telescopes is on track to reach the launch pad in the early 2030s, NASA announced this week ...

NASA’s New $4 Billion Space Telescope Just Saw Starlight for the First Time. Here’s What It Saw

Roman joins Hubble and Webb as humanity’s eyes in space. The road to launch was long and arduous, but NASA’s Nancy Grace ...

NASA's Roman telescope is in space. But don't expect photos until 2027

Here's what to know about the launch of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, as well as what's next for NASA's latest astronomical observatory.

SpaceX chosen to launch NASA's next great space telescope. Here's when

NASA is potentially days away from the launch of its Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. Here's how SpaceX's Falcon Heavy will send it to space.
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Roman Space Telescope sends first operational data back to Earth in major mission step

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has confirmed that its worldwide ground station network is successfully receiving ...

NASA’s new Roman Space Telescope sees starlight for the first time

The captured image is an early step toward releasing Roman’s first science pictures in early 2027.

NASA’s New Space Telescope Could Bring Alien Worlds Into View Like Never Before

NASA’s Roman Space Telescope will test powerful new technology that could make faint exoplanets far easier to image directly.

From 10 to 22 years: The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope's mission has just been extended

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope hasn't yet reached its Sun–Earth L2 orbit, and it already has some good news. NASA has ...
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James Webb Space Telescope finds our ancient universe wasn't as pure as we thought

Astronomers have discovered that just 500 million years after the Big Bang, galaxies were already pumping heavy elements into ...

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman space telescope launches

During its five-year primary mission, Roman is expected to observe billions of stars and galaxies, 100,000 exoplanets, and ...
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The James Webb Space Telescope and the Parker Solar Probe Changed How We See the Universe. Now, Their Models Have Found a Home at the Smithsonian

Imagine an enormous telescope with a sun shield the size of a tennis court that sends back proof of a lemon-shaped exoplanet raining diamonds. Then, picture a flying object that can hurtle toward the ...

NASA readies to launch its next-generation space telescope

NASA on Sunday is set to launch a next-generation telescope into space that’s expected to survey hundreds of millions of stars and billions of galaxies.