Project News

NASA Tool Gets Ready to Image Faraway Planets

Roman • May 21st, 2024

A technology demo on the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will help increase the variety of distant planets scientists can directly image.

NASA’s Roman Space Telescope’s ‘Eyes’ Pass First Vision Test

Roman • April 17th, 2024

Engineers at L3Harris Technologies in Rochester, New York, have combined all 10 mirrors for NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. Preliminary tests show the newly aligned...

How NASA’s Roman Telescope Will Measure Ages of Stars

Roman • April 4th, 2024

Guessing your age might be a popular carnival game, but for astronomers it’s a real challenge to determine the ages of stars. Once a star like our Sun has settled into steady...

NASA’s Roman Team Selects Survey to Map Our Galaxy’s Far Side

Roman • March 12th, 2024

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team has announced plans for an unprecedented survey of the plane of our Milky Way galaxy. It will peer deeper into this region than any...

NASA’s Roman to Use Rare Events to Calculate Expansion Rate of Universe

Roman • February 7th, 2024

Astronomers investigating one of the most pressing mysteries of the cosmos – the rate at which the universe is expanding – are readying themselves to study this puzzle in a new...

NASA Puts Next-Gen Exoplanet-Imaging Technology to the Test

Roman • January 31st, 2024

A cutting-edge tool to view planets outside our solar system has passed two key tests ahead of its launch as part of the agency’s Roman Space Telescope by 2027.

NASA’s Roman to Search for Signs of Dark Matter Clumps

Roman • January 17th, 2024

Some of the finest, smallest details in the universe – the gaps between elongated groups of stars – may soon help astronomers reveal dark matter in greater detail than ever...

Prepping for Data From the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

Roman • December 19th, 2023

As part of a plan to prepare for the quantity and range of data that will be coming in from the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, currently scheduled to launch by May 2027,...

How NASA’s Roman Space Telescope Will Chronicle the Active Cosmos

Roman • November 14th, 2023

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will pair space-based observations with a broad field of view to unveil the dynamic cosmos in ways that have never been possible before.

Why NASA’s Roman Mission Will Study Milky Way’s Flickering Lights

Roman • October 24th, 2023

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will provide one of the deepest-ever views into the heart of our Milky Way galaxy. The mission will monitor hundreds of millions of...