NASA's New Space Telescope Will Aid Hunt for 'Earth Twins' and Seek the Fate of the Universe
The telescope will survey 100 times more sky than Hubble and could help settle the Hubble tension while finding up to 100,000 new exoplanets.
- On Sunday, August 30, 2026, NASA is scheduled to launch the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center at 7:26 am EDT.
- Engineers and scientists at Caltech and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory spent over a decade developing the $4.3-billion mission to survey the Milky Way for 100,000 additional transiting exoplanets.
- Roman's field of view is 100 times that of the Hubble Space Telescope, enabling the observatory to employ microlensing to detect roughly 1,000 additional exoplanets other methods would miss.
- The observatory will investigate the cosmic tug-of-war between "dark matter" and "dark energy" while providing a broader view of starquakes throughout the galaxy through "asteroseismology".
- According to Julie McEnery, Roman's senior project scientist, the telescope's data deluge will guarantee the coming years are "packed with discoveries of which we now can scarcely dream.
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Since the launch, the vast telescope will take a hundred days to reach its final destination.
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NASA's new space telescope will aid hunt for 'Earth twins' and seek the fate of the universe
NASA is set to launch its latest multibillion-dollar telescope Sunday morning, as scientists gather at Florida's Space Coast and await liftoff with bated breath.
Nasa to launch one of the most ambitious missions of the century so far in just days
Nasa's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is due to launch on Sunday, marking one of the American space agency's most ambitious astronomical endeavours this century.The observatory has an unlikely origin story, its 2.4-metre mirror system was originally developed from surplus US military reconnaissance hardware, repurposed for peering into space rather than down at Earth.Once operational, the telescope will scan areas roughly 100 times broader th…
NASA is preparing for one of the most ambitious astronomical missions in recent years: a space telescope designed to probe the part of the universe that we can't see directly. It's the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, NASA's new observatory that will study dark energy and dark matter, two of the greatest mysteries of modern physics. Dark matter doesn't emit or reflect light, but scientists detect its influence through gravity. Dark energy is t…
Three decades of searching have produced roughly 6,300 confirmed planets beyond our Solar System. NASA’s Roman Space Telescope, targeted to launch August 30, could reveal around 100,000 more during its five-year primary mission—with some simulations placing the potential haul as high as 200,000.
The most important difference between 6,300 and 100,000 is not arithmetic. It is evidence status. The first number describes planets that have entered a confirmed catalogue after three decades of observations. The second is a forecast of signals NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope may reveal by repeatedly watching a crowded region of the Milky Way. Those signals will begin as candidates, not as 100,000 finished entries in an archive. Roman …
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