A few weeks ago, technicians inside a cavernous clean room in Maryland made the final connection to complete assembly of NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. Parts of this new observatory, named ...

PHOENIX — A billionaire-backed philanthropic organization is funding the development of a series of new observatories, including a space telescope larger than Hubble that its backers say can be built ...

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NASA’s Swift space telescope is running out of altitude, but a privately funded spacecraft is being readied to push it higher and keep its science going into the next decade. The planned 2026 ...

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has quietly crossed a threshold that turns a long‑planned mission into a near‑term reality: construction is complete and the observatory is entering its final ...