Tagged: space telescope

Since the 1990s, astronomers have discovered more than 4,000 exoplanets – planets outside our solar system, orbiting other stars. NASA’s upcoming Roman Space Telescope – named for American astronomer Nancy Grace Roman – is one of the next generation of space telescopes that will play...

In the past, we’ve reported about how the Roman Space Telescope is potentially going to be able to detect hundreds of thousands of exoplanets using a technique known as microlensing. Exoplanets won’t be the only things it can find with this technique, though—it should be...

The hunt is on! NASA has begun a quest to select its next big instrument to study the cosmos. Observatories such as the Hubble Space Telescope have revolutionized humanity’s view of the cosmos. And upcoming projects, such as the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and...

An eighth planet circling Kepler-90, a distant, Sun-like star 2,545 light years from Earth was discovered in data from NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope. The planet dubbed Kepler-90i is a super-hot, rocky alien world that orbits its star once every 14.4 days. The discovery was made...