Project News

Journey to Center of Milky Way With Upcoming NASA Roman Core Survey

Roman • January 23rd, 2026

At the heart of our own galaxy, there is a dense thicket of stars with a supermassive black hole at the very center. NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will provide the...

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Cycle 1 Call for Proposals

Roman • December 10th, 2025

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Cycle 1 Call for Proposals is open! It marks the first opportunity to submit proposals to conduct scientific investigations with Roman’s...

NASA Completes Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Construction

Roman • December 3rd, 2025

NASA’s next big eye on the cosmos is now fully assembled. On Nov. 25, technicians joined the inner and outer portions of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope in the largest...

How NASA’s Roman Mission Will Unveil Our Home Galaxy Using Cosmic Dust

Roman • September 16th, 2025

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will help scientists better understand our Milky Way galaxy’s less sparkly components — gas and dust strewn between stars, known as the...

NASA Roman Core Survey Will Trace Cosmic Expansion Over Time

Roman • August 12th, 2025

Roman’s High-Latitude Time-Domain Survey will find exploding stars that act as signposts to measure the universe’s expansion and the influence of dark energy. For thousands of...

Roman Coronagraph Instrument Call for White Papers

Roman • June 2nd, 2025

The Community Participation Program (CPP) is sponsoring a call for White Papers to collect concepts for technology demonstration and scientific exploration observations with the...

Key Portion of NASA’s Roman Space Telescope Clears Thermal Vacuum Test

Roman • May 7th, 2025

One half of NASA’s nearly complete Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope just passed a lengthy test to ensure it will function properly in the space environment.

NASA’s Roman Mission Shares Detailed Plans to Scour Skies

Roman • April 24th, 2025

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team shared Thursday the designs for the three core surveys the mission will conduct after launch. These observation programs are...

Team Preps to Study Dark Energy via Exploding Stars With NASA’s Roman

Roman • March 11th, 2025

The universe is ballooning outward at an ever-faster clip under the power of an unknown force dubbed dark energy. One of the major goals for NASA’s upcoming Nancy Grace Roman...

NASA Successfully Joins Sunshade to Roman Observatory’s ‘Exoskeleton’

Roman • February 12th, 2025

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team has successfully integrated the mission’s deployable aperture cover — a visor-like sunshade that will help prevent unwanted light...