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NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has been built—all set to unlock new secrets of the universe

The final milestone in construction was reached on November 25, as technicians carefully joined the giant telescope's inner ...

40,000 Roman-era coins discovered in French village

Archeologists recently discovered over 40,000 Roman-era coins during a dig in a French village. The treasure trove of ancient ...
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NASA's next-gen Roman Space Telescope is fully built. Could it launch earlier than expected?

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is now fully assembled and ready to begin launch preparations this summer.
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Roman Mission Gears Up For A Torrent Of Future Data

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team is exploring ways to support community efforts that will prepare for the deluge of data the mission will return. Recently selected infrastructure teams ...

NASA completes Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope construction

NASA's next big eye on the cosmos is now fully assembled. On Nov. 25, technicians joined the inner and outer portions of the ...
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NASA’s Roman and ESA’s Euclid Will Team Up to Investigate Dark Energy

The ESA Euclid (left) and NASA Roman space telescope, shown together in this artist’s concept, will explore the cosmic mystery of dark energy in complementary ways. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight ...
New Atlas

Complete ancient Roman city mapped using ground-penetrating radar

An international team of researchers has mapped the entirety of an ancient, buried Roman city known as Falerii Novi using radar scanning technology. The researchers unraveled the secrets of the city, ...
Live Science

Roman Emperors Were More Likely Than Gladiators to Die Gruesome Deaths

Emperors of ancient Rome tended to die bloody, violent deaths. In fact, a Roman gladiator had better odds of surviving a brutal fight in the arena than an emperor had of dying peacefully of natural ...
New York Post

Roman Emperor Caligula had an unexpected interest in medicinal plants, historians find

Caligula, the ancient Roman emperor infamous for his insanity and cruelty, may have had a soft spot for plants, according to recently published research. A new study co-authored by Trevor Luke, a ...

Roman military helped bring cats to Europe

In this new study, a team analyzed the genomes of 70 ancient cats, dating back over the last 11,000 years (from about 9000 ...
Live Science

Ancient Roman residences with 'pigeon towers' discovered in Luxor, Egypt

Archaeologists have discovered a residential area in Luxor dating to the time when the Roman Empire ruled Egypt. A team of archaeologists from the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities found a ...
New York Post

Roman artifact with cryptic ‘spirits of the dead’ message uncovered in New Orleans backyard

NEW ORLEANS — A New Orleans family cleaning up their overgrown backyard made an extremely unusual find: Under the weeds was a mysterious marble tablet with Latin characters that included the phrase ...