Project News

Primary Mirror for NASA’s Roman Space Telescope Completed

Roman • September 3rd, 2020

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 mirror, Roman will...

Unveiling Rogue Planets With NASA’s Roman Space Telescope

Roman • August 21st, 2020

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 our galaxy untethered...

Ground System for NASA’s Roman Space Telescope Completes Major Review

Roman • July 24th, 2020

The Roman Space Telescope's ground system, which will make data from the spacecraft available to scientists and the public, has just successfully completed its preliminary...

NASA Telescope Named For ‘Mother of Hubble’ Nancy Grace Roman

Roman • May 20th, 2020

NASA is naming its next-generation space telescope currently under development, the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST), in honor of Nancy Grace Roman, NASA’s first...

A Tale of Two Telescopes: WFIRST and Hubble

Roman • April 20th, 2020

NASA’s Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST), planned for launch in the mid-2020s, will create enormous cosmic panoramas. Using them, astronomers will explore everything...

Warped Space-time to Help WFIRST Find Exoplanets

Roman • March 30th, 2020

To date, astronomers have found most planets when they pass in front of their host star in events called transits, which temporarily dim the star's light. WFIRST data can spot...

NASA Approves Development of Universe-Studying, Planet-Finding Mission

Roman • March 2nd, 2020

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...

Probing the Hubble Constant with NASA's WFIRST

Roman • January 10th, 2020

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...

Simulated Image Demonstrates the Power of NASA’s Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope

Roman • January 7th, 2020

Imagine a fleet of 100 Hubble Space Telescopes, deployed in a strategic space-invader-shaped array a million miles from Earth, scanning the universe at warp speed.

Simulated WFIRST Coronagraph Image of 47 Ursae Majoris, Showing Two Detected Planets

Roman • June 26th, 2017

Simulation of the WFIRST Coronagraph image of star 47 Ursae Majoris.