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NASA and SpaceX successfully launch Nancy Grace Roman telescope

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — Early Sunday morning, NASA and SpaceX successfully launched the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. The mission is to help astronomers search for dark energy and planets.
Scientific American magazine

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Telescope glimpses its first cosmic light

Say cheese, universe. NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has caught its first glimpses of cosmic light—a major step on the road to beaming back unprecedented images and data about our galaxy and ...
gizmodo

NASA’s New $4 Billion Space Telescope Just Saw Starlight for the First Time. Here’s What It Saw

The road to launch was long and arduous, but NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Telescope finally got to space in late August. While Roman is still on its way to its final destination, it reached a major ...
Reuters

NASA says new Roman telescope's lifespan could more than double, to 22 years

WASHINGTON, Sept 17 (Reuters) - Even before the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has reached its planned orbital position, NASA says its newest flagship observatory's potential operational lifespan ...
Ars Technica

The Roman telescope has enough gas for 22 years, double NASA’s expectations

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is gliding toward its distant observation post on a pinpoint trajectory so precise that engineers estimate the spacecraft’s fuel load will last twice as long ...
Yahoo

NASA launches new telescope that sees 100x more than Hubble

NASA has launched a telescope with a field of view at least 100 times wider than that of Hubble's. The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope lifted off on Sunday, August 30, 2026, at 7:26 a.m. EDT, aboard ...
Mashable

NASA's Roman telescope is cruising. Here's a look at the next 100 days.

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, the agency's next flagship infrared observatory, launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Sunday, Aug. 30, 2026. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...
CBS News

Roman Space Telescope, NASA's next "great observatory," launches into space

Using a donated Hubble-class mirror originally built for a spy satellite, NASA's Roman Space Telescope launched Sunday on a $4.3 billion mission to open a new window on the universe, taking wide-angle ...
Newsweek

Who Was Nancy Grace Roman? Namesake of New NASA Telescope

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The $4.3 billion telescope is named after Nancy Grace Roman, the ...
The Verge

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launches to study dark matter and dark energy

The telescope will survey our universe 1,000 times faster than Hubble. The telescope will survey our universe 1,000 times faster than Hubble. is the Verge’s weekend editor. He’s covered the tech ...
NPR

'A glorious dawn launch': NASA's newest space telescope has left the Earth

A new NASA space telescope launched Sunday from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida that will help scientists probe the nature of dark matter, dark energy, and other mysteries of the universe. The ...
PBS

NASA's newest space telescope launches on a quest to explore the hidden universe

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA's newest crown jewel blasted off Sunday to hunt for planets around other stars, explore secret dark energy and survey the cosmos ...