Project News

The Roman Space Observer Game

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope • June 10th, 2022

You have been given observation time on the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope! How many astrophysical objects can you catch? The goal for this game is to inform and inspire...

NASA’s Roman Mission Will Test Competing Cosmic Acceleration Theories

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope • March 22nd, 2022

A team of scientists has predicted the science return from one of NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope’s groundbreaking planned surveys, which will analyze millions of...

How NASA’s Roman Could Help Find Other Earths by Surveying Space Dust

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope • March 16th, 2022

A team of scientists found NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will be able to measure a specific kind of space dust littered throughout dozens of nearby planetary systems’...

NASA’s Roman Mission Could Snap First Image of a Jupiter-Like World

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope • February 24th, 2022

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, now under construction, will test new technologies for space-based planet hunting. The mission aims to photograph worlds and dusty...

Simulated Image Shows How NASA’s Roman Could Expand on Hubble’s Deepest View

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope • January 10th, 2022

A team of astrophysicists has created a simulated image that shows how the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope could conduct a mega-exposure similar to but far larger than...

NASA’s Roman Mission Will Help Empower a New Era of Cosmological Discovery

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope • November 9th, 2021

A team of scientists has forecast the scientific impact of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope’s High Latitude Wide Area Survey on critical questions in cosmology.

NASA Confirms Roman Mission's Flight Design in Milestone Review

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope • September 29th, 2021

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has successfully passed its critical design review, signaling that all design and developmental engineering work is now complete.

A New Understanding of Galaxy Evolution with NASA’s Roman Space Telescope

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope • September 21st, 2021

When NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launches in the mid-2020s, it will revolutionize astronomy by providing a panoramic field of view at least 100 times greater than...

Ground System for NASA’s Roman Space Telescope Moves into Development

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope • July 29th, 2021

On July 23, the Roman Space Telescope successfully completed the critical design review of the mission’s ground systems.

NASA’s Roman Space Telescope Selects 24 Flight-Quality Heat-Vision ‘Eyes’

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope • June 9th, 2021

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team recently flight-certified all 24 of the detectors the mission needs. When Roman launches in the mid-2020s, these devices will...