'A glorious dawn launch': NASA's newest space telescope has left the Earth

The tour-bus-sized telescope aims to unravel cosmic mysteries and identify more than 100,000 planets beyond our solar system.

NASA’s Roman Telescope Leaves Earth to Chart the Stars

Astronomers will use data collected by Roman’s wide, deep gaze to study the dark universe and hunt for new worlds.
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NASA's Roman Telescope Just Launched — What It Will Do On Its Journey From Earth, and Five Years Later

Now that the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has finally launched, learn what will happen in the days, weeks, and months ...

NASA's new space telescope will aid hunt for 'Earth twins' and seek the fate of the universe

The Roman Space Telescope, equipped with JPL tech, may shed some light on the greatest mysteries of the universe.

NASA’s giant space ‘starshade’ could help ground telescopes photograph another Earth

NASA researchers are developing a hybrid observatory that would pair a giant telescope on Earth with a 99-meter starshade ...

After failure of private rescue mission, NASA's Swift space telescope will crash back to Earth. But when and where?

A private spacecraft failed to rescue NASA's Swift space telescope, meaning the big observatory will come crashing back to ...
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NASA finds Earth microbes could survive on the Moon

NASA scientists found that microbes brought by astronauts could survive in cold, shadowed niches around the Moon’s South Pole ...

NASA-led study shows Earth microbes could survive on moon

New research led by NASA scientists looking at five forms of fungi and bacteria indicates that some could survive for a time ...
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Earth’s shadow covered 96.3% of the moon but totality stayed out of reach

Earth’s darkest shadow covered 96.3% of the lunar disk at the peak of the August 27–28, 2026, partial lunar eclipse. That ...
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NASA’s Roman Space Telescope launches to reveal the Universe’s darkest secrets

NASA’s Roman Space Telescope has launched on a million mile journey to L2, where it will scan huge portions of the cosmos for ...

NASA’s Roman Telescope Begins a Million-Mile Journey Into Deep Space

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is now on its way to deep space, beginning a three-month, million-mile trip to its ...

NASA's Roman telescope is cruising. Here's a look at the next 100 days.

Following a successful launch on Sunday, Aug. 30, Roman is now flying to a point about 1 million miles from Earth, similar to ...