The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, NASA’s next great observatory, is finally complete

Engineers at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, complete the final integration of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope’s major components on Nov. 25, 2025, joining the spacecraft and telescope assemblies in the facility’s largest clean room. (Image credit: NASA/Jolearra Tshiteya) GREENBELT, Md. — On Tuesday (April 21) here at NASA’s Goddard SpaceContinue Reading

You’ve heard of the Space Force. Now there’s a ‘NASA Force’ — but it’s not about making space war

(Image credit: NASA) NASA’s ready for industry experts to join the agency under its new NASA Force initiative. NASA , in partnership with the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM), unveiled the NASA Force website on Friday (April 17). The aim is to “recruit and place high-impact technical talent into mission-critical roles,” according to anContinue Reading

Inside the Race to Control the World’s Lithium Supply

The world is ramping up its lithium production in a bid to meet the growing global demand for critical minerals, being driven by renewable energy deployment and the higher uptake of electric vehicles (EVs) and other electronics. Lithium production from mining increased from 31,500 metric tonnes in 2015 to 82,500 tonnes in 2020 and 290,000Continue Reading