With new technologies comes new discoveries. Or so Spider Man’s Uncle Ben might have said if he was an astronomer. Or a scientist more generally - but in astronomy that saying is more true than many other disciplines, as many discoveries are entirely dependent on the technology - the telescope, imager, or processing algorithm - used to collect data on them. A new piece of technology, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, is exciting scientists enough that they are even starting to predict what kind of discoveries it might make. One such type of discovery, described in a pre-print paper on arXiv by Vito Saggese of the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics and his co-authors on the Roman Galactic Exoplanet Survey Project Infrastructure Team, is the discovery of many more multiplantery exoplanet systems an astronomical phenomena Roman is well placed to detect - microlensing.
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Will 2026 bring strong auroras? What the sun's recent activity tells us
2025 was another busy year on the sun. But how did it compare with 2024, and what will 2026 bring for solar activity and the northern lights?
Senate confirms Jared Isaacman as 15th NASA Administrator
Jared Isaacman, President Donald Trump’s nominee to be the next administrator of NASA, appears before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2025, at the Russell Senate Office Building in Washington. Image: NASA/Joel Kowsky
Jared Isaacman was confirmed by the U.S. Senate to be NASA’s newest administrator on Wednesday afternoon.
As above, so below: Earth in the sky | Space photo of the day for Dec. 18, 2025
This 3D rendering of our planet was part of France's Festival of Lights celebration.
Night sky tonight: See the Orion Nebula shine after dark on Dec. 18
Find out what you can see in the night sky for tonight, from planets and stars to dazzling meteor showers.
What time will interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS be closest to Earth tonight?
NASA JPL pinpoints the moment the interstellar visitor passes closest to our planet.
10 gifts under $100 to transform any space-loving kid's bedroom
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Which is the best star projector for under $50 this Christmas?
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Gaia finds hints of planets in baby star systems
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Ever wondered how planetary systems like our own Solar System form? Thanks to the European Space Agency’s Gaia space telescope, we're getting a unique peek behind the cosmic curtain into these dusty environments.
James Webb Space Telescope confirms 1st 'runaway' supermassive black hole rocketing through 'Cosmic Owl' galaxies at 2.2 million mph: 'It boggles the mind!'
"The forces that are needed to dislodge such a massive black hole from its home are enormous."
10 years into the Disney 'Star Wars' era: Grading the ups and downs of a galaxy far, far away
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US Senate confirms Jared Isaacman as new NASA administrator
More than a year after his initial nomination, the U.S. Senate has voted to confirm billionaire private astronaut Jared Isaacman as NASA administrator.
Watch Blue Origin launch 1st wheelchair user to space on Dec. 18
Aerospace engineer Michi Benthaus will become the first wheelchair user ever to reach space on Thursday (Dec. 18), and you can watch her historic launch atop a Blue Origin rocket live.
Watch Rocket Lab launch 4 experimental 'DiskSats' for the US military tonight
Rocket Lab is scheduled to launch four "DiskSats" for the U.S. Space Force at midnight on Thursday (Dec. 18), and you can watch the action live.
New Radar Data Chills Prospects of a Subglacial Lake on Mars
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Camera on NASA Mars probe snaps its 100,000th photo of the Red Planet
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10 years later, 'The Force Awakens' stands as the blueprint for a 'Star Wars' that never was
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SpaceX launches Starlink missions in dual-coast spaceflight doubleheader (videos)
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Comet 3I/ATLAS Has A Green Glow In New Color Images From Gemini North
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Surprise! Saturn's huge moon Titan may not have a buried ocean after all
"We're not certain if having widespread liquid pockets instead of a global ocean makes Titan more or less habitable."
ESA's XMM-Newton Examines Comet 3I/ATLAS Prior to Closest Earth Passage Friday
*ESA’s premier X-ray observatory images interstellar comet 3I ATLAS. *
