NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope to search for 100,000 exoplanets

Name: NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope to search for 100,000 exoplanets
Uploaded: 2026-08-27T18:04:00Z
Duration: 3 min 57 s
Description: Jason Rhodes, Ph.D., a JPL Roman project scientist at NASA, discusses the upcoming launch of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. He explains how its 300-megapixel camera will capture massive surveys of the sky, potentially discovering 100,000 new exoplanets and mapping dark matter and dark energy from an orbit one million miles away.

America's Weather Center · FWX · Aired Yesterday · 3m 57s

Watch Now

Already a subscriber?

Jason Rhodes, Ph.D., a JPL Roman project scientist at NASA, discusses the upcoming launch of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. He explains how its 300-megapixel camera will capture massive surveys of the sky, potentially discovering 100,000 new exoplanets and mapping dark matter and dark energy from an orbit one million miles away.