NASA's Roman Space Telescope
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NASA engineers are developing ways to safely manage the growing number of spacecraft expected to travel around the Moon.
The Falcon Heavy – essentially three Falcon 9 rockets strapped together – is set to take flight with NASA’s $4.3 billion Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Pad 39-A.
A SpaceX rocket is due to propel NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope into space following an Aug. 30 launch in Florida. Here's how you can watch.
On launch day, NASA plans a full suite of coverage. The U.S. space agency will stream commentary and views of the rocket on NASA TV and its Youtube channel, beginning at 6:20 a.m. ET on Sunday, Aug. 30. Simultaneously, viewers can monitor live updates on the Roman launch blog .
“It’s not just that we have a field of view that’s much larger than Hubble and Webb,” Julie McEnery, an astrophysicist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland and senior project scientist for Roman, explains to Popular Science . The mirror—the heart of any telescope—and the spacecraft as a whole are lighter than both Hubble and JWST.
American space exploration reaches new heights as Donald Trump launches the U.S. Space Academy and honors astronauts with medals. NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman joins to outline the ambitious goal of returning boots to the moon by 2028.
Negotiations between Senate and House Republicans over a bill to reauthorize the National Aeronautics and Space Administration have stalled as President Trump is scheduled to visit NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston Friday.
President Donald Trump spoke with astronauts aboard the International Space Station Friday from NASA’s Mission Control at Johnson Space Center.