Project News

NASA’s Roman Mission Gets Cosmic ‘Sneak Peek’ From Supercomputers

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope • June 12th, 2024

Scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory contributed to a project that sets the stage for two telescopes investigating one of astrophysics’ biggest mysteries.

NASA Tool Gets Ready to Image Faraway Planets

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope • 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.

How NASA’s Roman Mission Will Hunt for Primordial Black Holes

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope • May 8th, 2024

Astronomers have discovered black holes ranging from a few times the Sun's mass to tens of billions. Now a group of scientists has predicted that NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space...

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

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope • 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

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope • 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

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope • 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

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope • 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

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope • 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

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope • January 18th, 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

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope • 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,...