NASA's new telescope to test whether scientists have dark energy wrong

NASA's latest space telescope may up-end our entire model of the cosmos by taking a closer look at a shadowy phenomenon dubbed "dark energy".

Its first images are expected to arrive in early 2027. NASA/John Kraus The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has officially launched on its mission to explore dark matter, dark energy and other mysteries of the universe. NASA's new space telescope, which is able to image swaths of the sky 100 times larger than what Hub

“It’s going to find thousands of supernovae, tens of thousands of planets, billions of galaxies and tens of billions of stars.”

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, named after NASA's first Chief of Astronomy, will observe black holes, exoplanets and exploding stars.

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Telescope blasts off. | Photo: NASA / John Kraus After funding struggles and a name change, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has been successfully launched. It will now make a three-month, one-million-mile journey to its orbit at the second Sun-Earth Lagrange point (L2) beyond the Moon.

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 F

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Scheduled to launch on Sunday aboard a SpaceX rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida, this telescope is the US agency's most ambitious scientific mission since the James Webb Space Telescope in 2021.

Scheduled to launch on Sunday aboard a SpaceX rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida, this telescope is the US agency's most ambitious scientific mission since the James Webb Space Telescope in 2021.