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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Climate Change Is Supercharging El Niño, 1,000 Years of Coral Data Shows
Scientists are still unraveling the relationship between El Niño and human-driven warming, but new research suggests they are troublingly linked.
Launch HN: Almanac (YC S26) – AI that knows your company
Hi HN, I'm Kushagra, one of three founders of Almanac, a Hermes with a brain that knows everything about your company.We started our journey with setting up ...
Trump Crashed NASA’s Press Conference to Praise the Space Telescope He Repeatedly Tried to Kill
The president interrupted a NASA press briefing to say, "I'm supplying you all that money."
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Launches
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket, transits the Sun during launch from the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Flori...
A “quantum bath” puts quantum entanglement on autopilot
Physicists have demonstrated a new way to entangle distant quantum bits without the constant measurements and active control normally required. The team crea...
NASA's next "great observatory" begins mission to widen our view of the Universe
"We would need over half a million 4K TVs to fully display the single Roman image from our largest survey."
Watch NASA and SpaceX launch the Roman Space Telescope
Watch NASA and SpaceX launch the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, designed to capture wide views of the distant universe.
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Aurora Ransomware Operators Use Cursor AI in Attacks Against 10 Targets
Threat actors associated with Aurora (aka Aur0ra) ransomware have been observed using SpaceX's artificial intelligence (AI)-powered coding assistant Cursor t...
NASA’s Roman Space Telescope launches to reveal the Universe’s darkest secrets
NASA’s Roman Space Telescope has launched on a million mile journey to L2, where it will scan huge portions of the cosmos for clues about dark matter, dark e...
NASAs Roman telescope is cruising. Heres a look at the next 100 days.
NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launched on Aug. 30, 2026. Here's what will happen on the spaceflight to get ready for science.
APOD: 2026 August 31 – Launch of the Roman Space Telescope
APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 August 31 –… Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss APOD Astronomy Picture of the ...
Bitcoin’s new quantum defenses, 18.9M SOL cancelled: Hodler’s Digest
Bitcoin moves toward a post quantum future, Solana validators agree to curb rampant inflation and the bull case from Bernstein is for Bitcoin to peak at $500...
Why it matters that President Trump just dialed in to a NASA news conference
With just one more major mission upcoming, NASA's science programs need a boost.
Musk’s faster path to more gas turbines comes with pollution problem
Elon Musk says a secretive new SpaceX foundry will let him cast his own turbine blades and get gas power online 18 months faster than anyone else — but it's ...
This strange “spacetime crystal” can suddenly become a black hole
Physicists have mathematically captured a bizarre “spacetime crystal” that can either dissolve or collapse into a microscopic black hole after only a tiny ch...
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Ribbon-Cutting Event for NASA Deep Space Network’s Deep Space Station 23
Description Leadership from NASA Headquarters, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and the Deep Space Network (DSN) stand in front of the recently completed Deep ...
NASA Deep Space Network’s New Goldstone Antenna Goes Online
Description Long shadows are cast by the recently completed Deep Space Station 23 at the Deep Space Network’s Goldstone complex near Barstow, California, in ...
NASA launched a space telescope on Sunday that will give astronomers a much wider view of the universe
The telescope carries a 2.4-meter primary mirror, the same size as Hubble's. But its Wide Field Instrument is designed for a different kind of work. The 300-...
SpaceX starts in-house turbine blade manufacturing to boost gas-powered generator output for Elon's AI data centers — new manufacturing strategy cuts generator delays by 18 months
Turbine blades and vanes are among the most complicated turbine engine parts to build, with processes taking as long as 60 to 90 weeks. Because of this, Musk...
IBM quantum computer solves classically intractable problem in 15 minutes
IBM and University of Chicago researchers have completed a quantum computation that leading classical methods could not practically reproduce. The system use...
NASA’s Dark Universe-Seeking Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Launches
Now on a three-month, million-mile journey to its final orbit, NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will soon reveal the universe’s darkest secrets. The ...
Scientists built a battery that charges almost instantly, but there's a catch
The device, developed by a team led by CSIRO quantum science researcher James Quach, is designed to take advantage of a quantum effect called superabsorption...
NASAs Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launches in historic moment
NASA has launched the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope to map dark matter, probe dark energy, and hunt for distant exoplanets.
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Something doesn't add up in the Chandelier Cluster, Hubble telescope finds — Space photo of the week
A dazzling new Hubble image of NGC 6723 poses one of astronomy's biggest questions: How did the Milky Way's oldest star clusters form?
Roman Space Telescope launch today: Livestream details, when to watch
NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will launch on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket. Here are ways to follow the liftoff live.
Some signs of quantum gravity may be an illusion
Quantum mechanics and Einstein’s theory of gravity explain almost everything we see in nature, yet physicists still do not know how to unite them. A new theo...
Roman telescopes data deluge will change who gets to do big astronomy
NASA's Roman Space Telescope will stream its data to the cloud, reshaping astronomy and who gets to make big space discoveries.
OpenAI to end model access to Cursor after acquisition by Elon Musk's SpaceX
OpenAI plans to end model access through Cursor on Nov. 12, citing concerns after SpaceX’s $60 billion acquisition of the coding startup.
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Has a Hidden Technological Leap
Astronomers will test equipment that, if it’s successful, will one day be crucial for discovering Earthlike planets.