NASA's newest major observatory will include the most advanced planet-imaging tech ever flown in space. Here's how it works

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launches Aug. 30 on a mission to explore some of the most pressing mysteries of the cosmos.

Coverage plans are ready for NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope prelaunch and launch activities. Roman is NASA’s next-generation observatory designed to

The Roman Coronagraph technology demonstration focuses on achieving $<$ 10$^{-7}$ contrasts within the instrument's dark hole and our ability to detect and characterize properties of faint companions ...

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Technicians have completed fueling NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, bringing it an important step closer to launch.

Nature Astronomy, Published online: 17 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41550-026-02936-0A trio of Jupiters for β Pictoris

The Supreme Court has upheld a broad conception of birthright citizenship, rejecting President Donald Trump’s executive order declaring that children born to people in the United States illegally or t...

Hot and ultra-hot Jupiters offer a unique laboratory to study atmospheric chemistry at the population level using ground-based high-resolution spectroscopy. Fe and Ti are key tracers of thermal and ch...

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We quantify an unusual flux-dependent systematic which is periodic in raw counts in flight data from the James Webb Space Telescope's Near Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (JWST/NIRISS), used...