NASA Goes Retro With the Roman Space Observer Game
Despite their low-resolution pixelated graphics, retro 8-bit style games are quite popular. Not just with older generations enjoying the nostalgia of the games they played…
Roman Space Telescope
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (formerly known as WFIRST, the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope) – a mission concept to answer vital questions in both exoplanet detection and dark energy research.
NASA’s Roman Mission Might Tell Us if the Universe Will Eventually Tear Itself Apart
NASA’s Nancy Gracy Roman Space Telescope won’t launch until 2027, and it won’t start operating until some time after that. But that isn’t stopping excited…
Dark Energy Vs. Modified Gravity: NASA’s Roman Mission Will Test Competing Cosmic Acceleration Theories
A team of scientists has predicted the science return from one of NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope’s groundbreaking planned surveys, which will analyze millions…
New Planet-Hunting Technologies: NASA’s Roman Mission Could Snap First Image of a Jupiter-Like World
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, now under construction, will test new technologies for space-based planet hunting. The mission aims to photograph worlds and dusty…
The End of Cosmic Dark Ages: How NASA’s Roman Space Telescope Could Expand on Hubble’s Deepest View
A team of astrophysicists has created a simulated image that shows how the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope could conduct a mega-exposure similar to but…
A New Era of Cosmological Discovery: NASA’s Roman Space Telescope To Unravel the Secrets of Dark Energy and Dark Matter
A team of scientists has forecast the scientific impact of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope’s High Latitude Wide Area Survey on critical questions in…
NASA Confirms Roman Space Telescope Mission’s Flight Design in Milestone Review
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has successfully passed its critical design review, signaling that all design and developmental engineering work is now complete. “After…
Major Milestone for NASA’s Revolutionary Roman Space Telescope
The Space Telescope Science Institute Will Host Roman’s Science Operations Center and Data Archive NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has just successfully completed the…
NASA Selects 24 Flight-Quality Heat-Vision “Eyes” for Roman Space Telescope
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team recently flight-certified all 24 of the detectors the mission needs. When Roman launches in the mid-2020s, these devices…
NASA’s Roman Mission: Using Exploding Stars to Solve the Biggest Cosmic Mysteries
NASA’s upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will see thousands of exploding stars called supernovae across vast stretches of time and space. Using these observations,…
How NASA’s Roman Space Telescope Will Uncover Solitary Black Holes
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will provide an unprecedented window into the infrared universe when it launches in the mid-2020s. One of the mission’s…
NASA’s Roman Space Telescope Predicted to Find 100,000 Transiting Planets
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will create enormous cosmic panoramas, helping us answer questions about the evolution of our universe. Astronomers also expect the…
Discrepancies in the Hubble Constant Have Vexed Astronomers – NASA’s Roman Space Telescope Could Help Resolve the Puzzle
Discrepancies in the Hubble constant, which describes how fast the universe is expanding, have vexed astronomers for years. Values predicted from observations of the early…
Incredible New “Cosmic Eyewear” to Deepen the View of NASA’s Roman Space Telescope
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will be able to explore even more cosmic questions, thanks to a new near-infrared filter. The upgrade will allow…
NASA’s Roman Space Telescope Will Probe Galaxy’s Core for Hot Jupiters and Brown Dwarfs
When it launches in the mid-2020s, NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will explore an expansive range of infrared astrophysics topics. One eagerly anticipated survey…
NASA’s Upcoming Roman Space Telescope Could Image 100 Hubble Ultra Deep Fields at Once
A Roman Ultra Deep Field would collect millions of galaxies, including some of the rarest and most distant In 1995, the Hubble Space Telescope stared…
NASA’s Roman Space Telescope Primary Mirror Completed – Field of View 100 Times Greater Than Hubble
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope’s primary mirror, which will collect and focus light from cosmic objects near and far, has been completed. Using this…
“Our Solar System May Be Unusual”: Rogue Planets Unveiled With NASA’s Roman Space Telescope
New simulations show that NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will be able to reveal myriad rogue planets – freely floating bodies that drift through…
