The final milestone in construction was reached on November 25, as technicians carefully joined the giant telescope's inner and outer components.

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 ...

Then, on November 25, teams at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, joined the inner and outer portions ...

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

NASA’s Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) is now named the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, after NASA’s first Chief of Astronomy. Credits: NASA NASA is naming its next-generation space ...

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 ...

NASA will name the upcoming Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) after Nancy Grace Roman, the space agency’s first female executive and first chief of astronomy. The telescope, still under ...

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 ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Nancy Roman is a President and CEO for the Partnership for a Healthier America with 19 videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 1992 Debate as a ...

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 ...