NASA selects SpaceX to launch the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will launch August 30, 2026, on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket to survey the universe. The powerful telescope boasts a field of view 100 times wider than Hubble, enabling it to study dark matter, dark energy, and thousands of exoplanets with unprecedented detail. Roman is named after NASA's first chief of astronomy and is designed to capture vast cosmic vistas and potentially image distant exoplanet atmospheres.