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.

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The Nancy Grace Roman space telescope successfully launched from Kennedy Space Center on Florida's Space Coast Sunday morning. The telescope lifted off at 7:26 a.m. aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket ...

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The tour-bus-sized telescope aims to unravel cosmic mysteries and identify more than 100,000 planets beyond our solar system.

Astronomers will use data collected by Roman’s wide, deep gaze to study the dark universe and hunt for new worlds. By Katrina Miller At 7:26 a.m. Eastern time on Sunday, the Nancy Grace Roman Space ...

During a visit to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory three years ago, I stepped into a blinding white room. There, I came face-to-face with a space instrument that could one day be used to search for ...