NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Launches to Explore Dark Energy, Dark Matter, and Exoplanets

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, a new observatory designed to survey the universe at an unprecedented scale, successfully launched on August 30, 2026. The mission aims to investigate the mysteries of dark energy and dark matter, and conduct a census of exoplanets using gravitational microlensing. Roman's wide field of view, 100 times larger than Hubble's, will complement the James Webb Space Telescope by mapping billions of galaxies and stars.