- NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is set to launch from Florida aboard a Falcon Heavy and will travel about 1 million miles away for a roughly five-year survey — first images are expected in January.
- Dubbed a "discovery machine," Roman will map dark matter and probe dark energy while spotting billions of galaxies and thousands of supernovas that could change how we see the universe.
- With a field of view far larger than Hubble, streaming about 1 TB of data per day and an experimental coronagraph to image exoplanets and rogue worlds, Roman could reveal tens of thousands of new planets and pave the way for future habitable-world missions.
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