On launch day, NASA plans a full suite of coverage. The U.S. space agency will stream commentary and views of the rocket on NASA TV and its Youtube channel, beginning at 6:20 a.m. ET on Sunday, Aug. 30. Simultaneously, viewers can monitor live updates on the Roman launch blog .

“It’s not just that we have a field of view that’s much larger than Hubble and Webb,” Julie McEnery, an astrophysicist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland and senior project scientist for Roman, explains to Popular Science . The mirror—the heart of any telescope—and the spacecraft as a whole are lighter than both Hubble and JWST.

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope started as a National Reconnaissance Office spy satellite and had to be heavily modified.

President Donald Trump set off a firestorm online from critics Friday after injecting partisan politics into a speech at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston.

One of the NASA astronauts who was stranded in space for nine mand his crewmate believed they might not make it home after the craft malfunctioned.

Negotiations between Senate and House Republicans over a bill to reauthorize the National Aeronautics and Space Administration have stalled as President Trump is scheduled to visit NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston Friday.

NASA has successfully tested a system that allows satellites to navigate without GPS by using other spacecraft and debris as landmarks in orbit. In just three days, FALCON also improved the known orbits of more than 200 space objects completely autonomously.

NASA astronaut Jonny Kim is leaving the space agency to continue his military career. Kim, who's also a medical doctor, completed one spaceflight during his NASA career.