NASA launches 'bus-size' telescope to discover things scientists have 'never been able to do before'

Roman was launched on Sunday, August 3013:52, 30 Aug 2026NASA has today launched a huge telescope the size of a bus on a hunt for planets around other stars - to discover things scientists have "never been able to do before".‌SpaceX launched the 4.3 billion dollars Roman Space Telescope on Sunday, August 30, aboard a Falcon Heavy rocket from Kennedy Space Centre.‌Roman is heading towards an observation point one million miles away that is home to the Webb Space Telescope, one of Nasa’s other major eyes in the sky.‌Click here to get the biggest stories straight to your inbox in our Daily NewsletterThe bus-sized telescope - named after the late Nancy Grace Roman, Nasa’s first chief astronomer - will take more than three months to reach its destination.Once it arrives, it will cast the widest