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Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

April 25 , 2026 11 hrs 0 min 27 0
  • The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has completed assembly and entered final testing before its 2026 launch.
  • Built by NASA, it is considered the next major telescope after the Hubble Space Telescope and the James Webb Space Telescope.
  • It has a 2.4-metre mirror and can capture images of space covering 100 times larger an area than Hubble.
  • The mission will study dark energy, dark matter and help understand the expansion of the universe.
  • It will also detect exoplanets and will be launched on SpaceX Falcon Heavy to a point called L2 in space.

 

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