After brutal cuts, can this NASA center still build multibillion-dollar space telescopes?
2025 was a brutal year of budget cuts and workforce attrition at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, the home base for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. Experts worry Goddard—and NASA’s space science—may never recover
The life and death of the sun
Our sun is on a long, strange trip to its eventual demise. Here are the key stops along the way
See how gravitational waves warp time and space
The latest gravitational-wave discoveries include record-breaking cataclysms
‘Odd couple’ black holes can find each other in space
Two studies find signs of strange black hole binary systems
A mighty space telescope is dying. Here’s why it mattered
NASA’s formidable gamma-ray burst hunter is doomed to soon reenter Earth’s atmosphere, leaving a glaring gap in our view of the high-energy sky
This cosmic particle was never meant to reach Earth. Now scientists think they finally know why it did
In 2022 researchers detected a very odd photon from an enormous gamma-ray burst that should have been destroyed on its way to Earth
The strangest sky in the galaxy
The newfound star S301 orbits the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole so closely that its view of the heavens gets twisted
What’s next for NASA’s new Roman Space Telescope?
After a flawless launch, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is on a mission to solve some of the universe’s biggest mysteries
NASA’s Roman Telescope lifts off, starting a mission to explore the universe’s biggest mysteries
The Nancy Grace Roman Telescope will probe dark matter and dark energy, discover exoplanets and study stars
Where are all the aliens? A new book explores possible answers
Seven Rasmussen, an astrobiologist and author of the new book Cloudy with a Chance of Starships, gives readers a tour of the astonishing science behind modern searches for alien life
Ten cosmic discoveries we’ll get from NASA’s Roman Space Telescope
NASA’s Roman Space Telescope will open a whole new window on the cosmos. Here are 10 things it’s likely to show us
NASA’s newest telescope is about to rewrite how we study the universe
Astronomers are lining up to leverage NASA’s soon-to-launch Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, which boasts capabilities unlike any previous off-world observatory