Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the history of science and exploration. In 1942, the head of the physics department at Swarthmore College told an eager ...

Due for launch in the mid-2020s, the Nancy Grace Roman Telescope is destined to become one of the great planet-hunting telescopes. Although the main mirror at the heart of the Roman Telescope is no ...

In the last century, we have observed the infinite universe using massive lenses suspended in space. Together, these telescopes — Hubble, Chandra, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, and others ...

An upcoming NASA telescope has been named the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope in honor of the agency’s first chief of astronomy. The telescope, which is currently in development and expected to ...

NASA recently put a crucial part of the Roman Space Telescope — the Outer Barrel Assembly — through a rigorous "spin test" designed to evaluate its resilience against the intense gravitational forces ...

The Roman Space Telescope is one of NASA's next great observatories, designed to explore some of the biggest questions in ...

If the James Webb Space Telescope is the most audacious space observatory mission of the 2020s — surrounded by both hype over its capabilities and controversy over its controversial namesake — then ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: NASA/Chris Gunn Scientists working on NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope have ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope will most likely be replaced soon. And eventually, a successor will come and take its place even it will still go on for at least another decade. The successor for NASA's ...

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(CNN) — An upcoming NASA telescope has been named the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope in honor of the agency’s first chief of astronomy. The telescope, which is currently in development and expected ...

The astronomy world is poorer off today. Nancy Grace Roman, the first chief of astronomy at NASA's Office of Space Science, died on December 25th at 93. She was widely considered the "mother" of the ...