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Engineers have rebuilt the observatory's internal map of where stars should fall, a step that lets its 18-detector camera guide the telescope steadily while the planet-imaging coronagraph works.
Nov 14, 2026
Nancy Grace Roman is not a bigger Webb. It is a survey instrument, built to photograph enormous areas of sky at Hubble-class sharpness, and its value is in the sheer volume of what it will record.
Aug 21, 2026
Roman has finished its initial checkout and can guide, image and slew, NASA says. On the same day Hubble released a lens image meant to teach astronomers how to read Roman's wide views.
Oct 23, 2026
Chang'e 7 targets the one part of the Moon where ice may have sat undisturbed for billions of years, in craters the sun has never reached. The hopper is the part nobody has tried before.
Aug 21, 2026
