ScienceNancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launches to study dark matter and dark energy

After funding struggles and a name change, NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has launched successfully. It will spend three months traveling about one million miles to the second Sun-Earth Lagrange point, where its broad, fast survey capabilities will examine exoplanets and map how dark matter and dark energy shaped the universe.

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