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Supernovas, kilonovas, gamma-ray bursts... oh my! The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will uncover 100,000 of these ...
NASA’s Roman Space Telescope is set to embark on a deep-sky survey that could capture nearly 100,000 cosmic explosions, ...
Researchers will mine data from NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, which will survey the same areas of the sky every ...
Now, a team of scientists are preparing to use NASA's upcoming Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) to test different theories ...
The departures are playing out as NASA and other government agencies contend with significant cuts to funding and personnel.
"It's almost unfathomable to imagine what is happening to this planet. The planet's atmosphere simply cannot withstand the ...
New images taken by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope show young stars forming within a "toe bean" on the Cat's Paw Nebula.
What should we expect from the next generation of space telescopes? What key scientific questions will they help answer? Do we have the technology we need to operate them in 20-30 years? To address ...
To study those worlds, this future space telescope would need to blot out the shine of distant stars, since the light of small planets is about 10 billion times fainter than starlight. NASA doesn ...
The telescope is named for James Webb, who oversaw NASA’s moon landing program. But to some astronomers, Webb is also known for working in the State Department during the “Lavender Scare ...