Technicians and engineers inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida rotate the agency’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope to vertical Thursday, June 25, 2026, using precision handling hardware. Credit: NASA/Sydney Rohde (Rocz) What if we could map the universe with unprecedented precision and speed? What if an observatory could accomplish in a single month what would take the Hubble Space Telescope nearly a century to survey? Th

The LISA spacecraft constellation. The triple spacecraft following Earth's orbit around the Sun. Credit: Simon Barke If someone told you NASA was building a giant space laser the size of the Sun, you'd probably wonder when the agency decided to go full "Star Wars" on everybody. Oh, and the European Space Agency (ESA) is in on it too, so I guess it's an international Death Star. Just kidding! But weirdly enough, not about the whole giant space laser the size of the Sun thing

Nobel Prize in Physics Winners; Barry Barish, Kip Thorne and Rainier Weiss We don't know yet whether or not the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize conferred on Rainer Weiss, Barry Barish, and Kip Thorne is an example of work, as the Nobel Prize describes, the "greatest benefit to mankind," but we do know their achievement was the first direct detection of a gravitational wave in history. The proof that Einstein was right. The three were awarded the Nobel in Physics "for decisive contrib