"NASA's Advanced Telescope: Discovering Countless Exoplanets and Earth-sized Wanderers"

NASA's upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, set to launch between October 2026 and May 2027, could potentially detect 400 Earth-mass rogue planets, shedding light on the formation and evolution of planetary systems. Two new studies suggest that rogue planets are six times more abundant than star-orbiting planets in our galaxy. The telescope's wide field of view and sharp vision will allow for detailed study of these objects, and its improved capabilities are expected to discover around 2,600 exoplanets across the Milky Way. Roman's coronagraph will directly image exoplanets, capturing details of planets that are 10 billion times fainter than their stars.