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Roman Space Telescope Cleared for Aug. 30 Launch

It is a wide-field infrared observatory that will map dark matter, locate exoplanet targets for follow-up, deliver vast survey data.

Euclid Finds 31 Quasars From the Universe’s First 700 Million Years

Euclid Finds 31 Primordial Quasars, Including Two New Distance Records

Launch Failure Delays Mission to Rescue NASA’s Swift Telescope

X‑Ray Echoes Push Two Outer Milky Way Arms About 10% Farther Out

U.S. Robot Mission Readies to Boost Aging Swift Space Telescope

Euclid Captures Largest High-Resolution Visible-Light Image of Milky Way’s Bulge

Roman Space Telescope Arrives at Kennedy, Targets Aug. 30 Falcon Heavy Launch

Roman Space Telescope Arrives at Kennedy Space Center for Final Prelaunch Work

NASA Moves Roman Space Telescope Launch Up to August 30, 2026

Hubble Reanalysis Weakens Case for Water Plumes on Europa

JWST Finds Heavy, Water-Rich Atmosphere on Mini-Neptune in Rare Hot-Jupiter System

NASA’s Roman Space Telescope Targets Fall 2026 Launch After Final Assembly

Uranus’s Outer Rings Yield First Spectra, Pointing to Icy Mab Source and Possible Hidden Moonlets

NASA Unveils Completed Roman Space Telescope With Early September Launch Target

Astronomers Unveil Most Compact Known 3+1 Quadruple-Star System

JWST Charts Uranus’s Upper Atmosphere in 3D, Exposing Auroral Bands and a Cooling Trend

NASA Picks Industry Teams as Proposed Funding Boost Speeds Habitable Worlds Observatory

Astronomers Make First Direct Mass Measurement of a Rogue Planet

NASA’s SPHEREx Releases First Full-Sky Infrared Map in 102 Colors