Team preps to study dark energy via exploding stars with NASA's Roman
The universe is ballooning outward at an ever-faster clip under the power of an unknown force dubbed dark energy. One of the major goals for NASA's upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is to ...
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NASA installs 'bulletproof' sunshade on powerful Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (photos)
The team working on NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has announced the successful installation of the observatory's sunshade. This visor-like shade serves as a deployable aperture cover ...
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How to look back on 10 billion years of cosmic history
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Webb telescope directly observes exoplanet CO₂ for first time
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Earth's First Civilization Hunting Telescope Will Be Piece of Tech Unlike Any Other
The Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) telescope will be actively looking for traces of life on Earth-like planets in other ...
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'The universe has thrown us a curveball': Largest-ever map of space reveals we might have gotten dark energy totally wrong
Findings from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) suggest that dark energy could be evolving over time. If ...
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NASA to Launch Mother of All Space Telescopes – Inside Sources
On Oct. 1, 1847, at age 29, Maria Mitchell, a studious and sturdy Quaker who, as a child, began sweeping the sky above Nantucket, Mass., with a telescope, ...
NASA's SPHEREx Observatory launches with BAE Systems-built spacecraft bus and telescope
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NASA installs 'bulletproof' sunshade on powerful Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (photos)
In this photo, technician Brenda Estavia is installing the innermost layer of the sunshade onto the deployable aperture cover structure of NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. | Credit ...