NASA Will Track Cosmic Expansion Over Time.
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will be a discovery machine, thanks to its wide field of view and resulting torrent of data. Scheduled to launch no later than May 2027, with the team working toward launch as early as fall 2026, its near-infrared Wide Field Instrument will capture an area 200 times larger than […]
Dark Energy Experiment Challenges Einstein’s Theory of Universe
The mysterious force called Dark Energy, which drives the expansion of the Universe, might be changing in a way that challenges our current understanding of time and space, scientists have found. Some of them believe that they may be on the verge of one of the biggest discoveries in astronomy for a generation – one […]
ESA’s Euclid Lifts off on Quest to Unravel the Mystery of Dark Matter and Dark Energy
Following launch and separation from the rocket, ESA’s European Space Operations Centre (ESOC) in Darmstadt, Germany, confirmed acquisition of signal from Euclid via the New Norcia ground station in Australia at 17:57 CEST. “The successful launch of Euclid marks the beginning of a new scientific endeavour to help us answer one of the most compelling […]