Astronomers will test equipment that, if it’s successful, will one day be crucial for discovering Earthlike planets.

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, set to launch shortly, could find 40 times the number of distant worlds as have been detected so far.

Targeting launch Aug. 30, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will attempt to directly image a set of exoplanets selected with help from Cornell faculty member Dmitry Savransky.

NASA’s Roman Space Telescope will open a whole new window on the cosmos. Here are ten things it’s likely to show us

This is the next flagship space observatory.