Nancy Grace Roman: Everything You Need to Know About NASA's Newly Launched $4 Billion Space Telescope
Now that NASA has successfully put it into space, the telescope will hunt for distant planets and attempt to map the "dark universe."
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Astronomy or Megaconstellations: New Study Shows We Can't Have Both
If the private space industry has its way over the next decade, ground-based and even orbital astronomy could become much, much more difficult.
Why NASA's Mission to Rescue the Swift Observatory Ended in Failure
It really was worth the try.
Astronomers Realize Dark Matter Has Been Magnifying Cosmic Readings
The insight could help reveal the nature of neutrinos, the so-called "ghost particles" that have proved difficult to observe.
NASA's Quest to Upgrade the Voyager Probes From 16 Billion Miles Away
How do you save a probe that's 172 times farther from the Earth than the Earth is from the Sun?
New Detection Reveals a Galaxy With Three Cores
Astronomers have found a distant galaxy containing three separate supermassive black holes, potentially showing how early galaxies formed.
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The Swift Rescue Mission Could Be Back in Business
After a nearly catastrophic failure, a software update renews hope of saving NASA's Swift observatory before it burns up.