WATCH: NASA launches revolutionary new telescope

On August 30, 2026, NASA launched the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida using a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket. Named after the agency's first chief astronomer, this next-generation telescope is designed to observe billions of stars and galaxies. Featuring a field of view significantly larger than Hubble's, the revolutionary instrument aims to solve major mysteries of the universe by surveying vast cosmic regions to provide unprecedented astronomical data.