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…
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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…
Major Milestone for NASA’s Roman Space Telescope Mission
When it launches in the mid-2020s, NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will create enormous panoramic pictures of space in unprecedented detail. The mission’s wide…
Next-Generation NASA Space Telescope Named for ‘Mother of Hubble’ Nancy Grace Roman
At the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, team members are building the Coronagraph Instrument for the spacecraft and contributing to the mission’s science goals. NASA is…
NASA WFIRST Will Detect Exoplanets Using Warped Space-Time
The NASA mission will identify planets with large orbits, similar to our solar system’s far-flung giants, Uranus and Neptune. NASA’s Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope…
WFIRST Universe-Studying, Planet-Finding Mission Greenlit by NASA
NASA’s Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) project has passed a critical programmatic and technical milestone, giving the mission the official green light to begin…
WFIRST Coronagraph ‘Starglasses’ May Be the Most Complicated Astronomical Instrument Ever Flown
When a new NASA space telescope opens its eyes in the mid-2020s, it will peer at the universe through some of the most sophisticated sunglasses…
Unlocking the True Nature of Dark Matter With WFIRST
The true nature of dark matter is one of the biggest mysteries in the universe. Scientists are trying to determine what exactly dark matter is…
WFIRST Space Telescope Fitted for ‘Starglasses’ [Video]
When a new NASA space telescope opens its eyes in the mid-2020s, it will peer at the universe through some of the most sophisticated sunglasses…
NASA’s WFIRST Will Study Dark Energy and Help Uncover the Universe’s Fate [Video]
Scientists have discovered that a mysterious pressure dubbed “dark energy” makes up about 68% of the total energy content of the cosmos, but so far…