# 'A giant leap forward': Nasa launches powerful new space telescope to explore the Universe

https://mins.news/en/item/37817

- BBC News, 2026-08-30 18:53 UTC
- Science
- Original: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce87e55vgpjo?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss

> Nasa's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has launched from Florida's Kennedy Space Center on a multi-year mission to map the Universe and investigate dark energy, dark matter, black holes and exoplanets. Its field of view will be far wider than Hubble's or the James Webb telescope's.

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