Project News

Roman Space Telescope Could Image 100 Hubble Ultra Deep Fields at Once

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope • January 11th, 2021

NASA’s upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will be able to photograph an area of the sky at least 100 times larger than Hubble with the same crisp sharpness.

NASA’s Roman Space Telescope to Uncover Echoes of the Universe’s Creation

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope • November 18th, 2020

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will detect vestiges of sound waves that once rippled through the primordial cosmic sea.

Primary Mirror for NASA’s Roman Space Telescope Completed

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope • 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

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope • 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

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope • 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

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope • 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

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope • 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

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope • 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

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope • 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

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope • 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...