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‘Miami Vice’ Reboot With Michael B. Jordan, Austin Butler Gets Official Title: ‘Miami Vice ’85’

Michael B. Jordan and Austin Butler‘s “Miami Vice” reboot is officially confirmed, with the new title “Miami Vice ’85.”

The Universal film, from “F1” and “Top Gun: Maverick” director Joseph Kosinski, is scheduled for release on Aug. 6, 2027. Production on the movie, which will be filmed for Imax, will start later this year.

Jordan, the newly minted best actor Oscar winner, will star as Ricardo “Rico” Tubbs, with Oscar nominee Butler playing James “Sonny” Crockett. (Philip Michael Thomas and Don Johnson first portrayed the suave South Florida detectives in the classic 80s TV series; then Colin Farrell and Jamie Foxx starred in the first big-screen adaptation, 2006’s “Miami Vice,” directed by Michael Mann.)

Jordan and Butler were first reported as being in talks to star in the film last year. “Michael is someone I’ve admired for a long time, [and] always wanted to work with him. Austin, I think, is proving himself as someone to watch. Again, I’ve just have really admired his choices,” Kosinski told Variety at the time, explaining why the duo topped his wish list. “If it ends up being those two, I’d be very lucky.”

Indeed, Jordan and Butler join the film at the top of their respective games. Jordan won the Academy Award, SAG-AFTRA’s Actor Award and two NAACP Awards for his dual-performance in Ryan Coogler’s blockbuster hit “Sinners.” Next, he stars in, directs and produces a reimagining of “The Thomas Crown Affair” for Amazon MGM Studios, the sexy trailer for which electrified the CinemaCon audience. Jordan is represented by 1v1 Entertainment, WME, Johnson Shapiro Slewett & Kole, and 2PM Sharp

Butler added Baz Luhmrann to his list of collaborations with auteur filmmakers (and a best actor Oscar nod) with his transformative performance as Elvis Presley in “Elvis.” Since then, Butler starred in films for Denis Villeneuve (“Dune: Part Two”), Jeff Nichols (“The Bikeriders”), Darren Aronofsky (“Caught Stealing”) and Ari Aster (“Eddington”). Butler will next star in the A24 crime thriller “Enemies” with Jeremy Allen White. He is represented by WME, Brillstein, Sloane Offer Weber & Dern and 2PM Sharp.

Per the film’s logline, Kosinski’s “Miami Vice ’85” will explore “the glamour and corruption of mid-80’s Miami” and is “inspired by the pilot episode and first season of the landmark television series that influenced culture and set the style of everything from fashion to filmmaking.”

Dan Gilroy penned the script, based on characters created by Anthony Yerkovich from the TV series, which was executive produced by Yerkovich and Mann. Eric Warren Singer wrote an earlier draft of the screenplay.

Dylan Clark (for Dylan Clark Productions) and Kosinski serve as producers on the film. Executive VP of production development Sara Scott and creative executive of production development Christina Hoffrogge will oversee the project for the studio.

Kosinski, Clark and Gilroy are represented by CAA. Kosinski is also represented by Untitled Entertainment and Sloane Offer Weber & Dern; Clark is also represented by 42West; and Gilroy is also represented by LBI and Behr Abramson Levy Johnson.

April 22, 2026
Ashley Graham Teases Cameo in ‘The Devil Wears Prada 2’ at Variety’s Entertainment Marketing Summit: ‘It’s Very Exciting’

Supermodel Ashley Graham is adding actress to her resume with a cameo credit in “The Devil Wears Prada 2,” set to hit theaters on May 1. At Variety’s Entertainment Marketing Summit presented by Deloitte, Graham and UTA Partner and Agent Natasha Bolouki dove into the cameo, what drives business decisions, how the two work together and how Graham continues to cultivate authentic relationships with her fans.

Bolouki got candid about the opportunity, explaining that when they first spoke about Graham appearing in the film, they were aware of the fact that her cameo could get cut. “You don’t know what’s going to happen [on the] editing room floor,” she explained. “But it just turned out [great]. First of all, she was in the trailer… She’s in the opening scene of the movie. And even prior to that, that small thing has led to some other really great partnerships just because of that.”

It might not have seemed like the “biggest thing when you first look at it,” said Bolouki, but the better question is what the opportunity can lead to in the future. That’s one example of how opportunities for today’s multi-hyphenate talent environment requires representatives like Bolouki to be “thinking outside of the box.”

Graham, long outspoken about the need for size inclusivity, discussed today’s fashion trends, explaining that her focus remains on continuing the conversation around needing “to see all shapes and sizes on the runway…we need to have more than just an XL or a double XL in the store.”

And when it comes to engaging with her fanbase, Graham is all about community. “I’m in the comments, commenting. I’m in the DMs. I love sending a voice note,” she said. “I love to have intimate dinners.” For the premiere of “The Devil Wears Prada 2,” she brought Ella Halikas, a top plus-size creator, as her plus one. “I just thought, you know what, why not invite one of these girlies who’s probably not going to get the opportunity, and opening up that door for someone? For me, it’s constantly thinking about how to connect, how to engage, and how to stay connected with my community as well.”

Graham, who currently has a plus size collection in partnership with JC Penny and founded Lucci Lambrusco, also discussed turning down deals that don’t align with her — or her audience. “I’ve said no to million dollar deals, because I know that the fans would be like, ‘Wait, what?’” said Graham. “There have been things that Natasha has brought me, and she said, ‘I just don’t think this is going to make sense. Here’s the dollar amount.’ We take a day to think about it, and we’re like, ‘We just can’t do it.’

Variety’s Entertainment Marketing Summit brought together leaders shaping the future of entertainment marketing and spotlightedg the growth of the creator economy, strategies for how brands can reconnect with audiences and more. Other speakers include Tina Knowles, Warner Bros Motion Picture Group co-chair and CEO Pam Abdy, design expert and TV host Bobby Berk and TV personality, host and entrepreneur Harry Jowsey.

April 22, 2026
Why This Is One of the Best Bitcoin Bear Markets Ever
Crypto Rover, a prominent YouTuber and Bitcoin analyst, shares why he believes this may be one of the best Bitcoin bear markets ever.

The market pundit discussed this while sharing historical data surrounding drawdowns from previous Bitcoin bear markets. Specifically, the data confirms that despite the overly sour sentiment, Bitcoin’s lowest drawdown so far this season has been an improvement from past bearish phases.

Key Points
- Crypto Rover calls the current Bitcoin downturn one of the best bear markets ever.
- The ongoing bear market began around October 2025 and has lasted about seven months, with weak market sentiment.
- Bitcoin trades around $78,000, about 38% below its $126,000 all-time high in this cycle.
- The lowest price so far is $59,930 in February 2026, marking a 52% drawdown from the peak.
- Past cycles saw deeper losses, with declines between 70% and 85% before reaching their final bottoms.
Current Bitcoin Drawdown Remains Historically Low

The ongoing downturn began around October 2025 and has now stretched to roughly seven months, pushing sentiment into bearish territory. Despite this negative mood, the data suggests that the damage remains relatively limited.

Crypto Rover’s chart shows that the present cycle has only recorded drawdowns of about 42% to 52% more than 190 days after the all-time high. Even as the timeline progresses, the decline remains moderate.

Specifically, at the time of the snapshot on April 15, 2026, Bitcoin traded at $74,836. This price indicated that the cycle’s drawdown stood at 40% from the all-time high of $126,000, attained in early October 2025.

At press time, Bitcoin changes hands at $78,000, which implies a 38% drop from the cycle high. The lowest point so far came in early February 2026, when the price fell to $59,930. This level represents a 52% decline from the peak. Even at this lowest point, the drawdown remains much less severe than what previous cycles experienced.

If the $59,930 level ultimately marks the bottom of this cycle, it would confirm that Bitcoin avoided the deeper corrections typical of past bear markets. Notably, the current cycle has not reached a 55% decline at any stage, confirming how this downturn has been unusually mild.

Historical Data Around Past Drawdowns

For context, the chart compares different Bitcoin cycles by using percentage drops instead of actual prices. Each cycle starts at Day 0, which marks the exact day Bitcoin reached its all-time high for that period.

Bitcoin Cycle Drawdowns

From there, the chart calculates the decline by dividing the current price by the all-time high price, minus 100%. In this model, 0% means the price is still at its peak, while negative values show how far it has fallen.

Historical comparisons confirm why Crypto Rover called this phase one of the best Bitcoin bear market phases. Earlier cycles consistently recorded drawdowns between 70% and 85%. By 300 to 400 days after their peaks, most past cycles had already dropped between 70% and 80%.

The 2015 cycle hit $198, an 82% decline. The 2018 cycle reached a low of $3,135, translating to an 84% drop. Meanwhile, the 2022 cycle ended at $15,460, with a drawdown of roughly 77%. These declines occurred over periods ranging from 300 to 700 days, with prices remaining deeply suppressed for extended durations.

A Mild Bitcoin Bear Market… For Now

Essentially, Bitcoin’s current downturn remains historically mild. The data shows that the asset has avoided the extreme losses recorded in past cycles. This confirms the claim that the ongoing bear phase ranks among the least damaging on record.

However, there is still uncertainty. While the current drawdown sits at 38%, the cycle has not yet fully concluded. Bitcoin’s future price action could still push prices to new lows, potentially changing the narrative. For now, though, the evidence indicates that this is one of the most resilient bear markets Bitcoin has ever experienced.
April 22, 2026
List of the 15 Altcoins with the Highest Revenue in the Last Month Released
New data on the revenue performance of projects in the cryptocurrency market has revealed that stablecoin issuers and blockchain networks, in particular, stand out in revenue generation. According to data from the last 30 days, the projects generating the highest revenue across the sector and their revenue trends present a remarkable picture.

At the top of the list was stablecoin issuer Tether ($USDT). Revenue generated from the use of its reserves reached $459 million in the 30-day period, with no significant change observed in revenue. It was followed by Tron ($TRX), which stands out with its robust transaction fee model. The Tron network generated $223.8 million in revenue during the same period, registering a 13.2% increase.

In third place is another stablecoin giant, Circle ($USDC). Circle’s revenue reached $201.6 million, marking a notable 4.5% growth. The derivatives trading platform Hyperliquid ($HYPE), however, experienced a 5.2% decrease despite generating $51.7 million in revenue.

Related News Aave Founder Stani Kulechov Released an Update on the Incident Following the Recent KelpDAO Hack

According to data from the last 30 days, the projects that generated the most revenue are ranked as follows:
1. Tether ($USDT) – $459.0 million (0.0%)
2. Tron ($TRX) – $223.8 million (+13.2%)
3. Circle ($USDC) – $201.6 million (+4.5%)
4. Hyperliquid ($HYPE) – $51.7 million (-5.2%)
5. Sky (SKY) – $33.2 million (+19.1%)
6. pump.fun (PUMP) – $21.4 million (-15.1%)
7. Polymarket – $19.1 million (+238.1%)
8. Ethereum (ENA) – $18.2 million (+3.9%)
9. edgeX (EDGE) – $12.7 million (-15.8%)
10. Grove – $11.8 million (+160.4%)
11. Axiom Trade – $10.9 million (-16.3%)
12. PancakeSwap (CAKE) – $9.4 million (-39.9%)
13. GMGN – $8.0 million (-18.2%)
14. Aave (AAVE) – $6.9 million (+3.5%)
15. Lido Finance (LDO) – $5.6 million (+5.4%)
*This is not investment advice.
April 22, 2026
Joseph Kosinski’s ‘Miami Vice’ Reveals Title, ’80s Setting as It Locks Michael B. Jordan, Austin Butler as Leads

Joseph Kosinski’s Miami Vice movie finally has a title, Miami Vice ’85, and Michael B. Jordan and Austin Butler have officially signed on to play Ricardo “Rico” Tubbs and Sonny Crockett after long circling the project in negotiations.

The movie version of the 1980s TV series is inspired by the police show’s pilot episode and first season and is set for a release by Universal Pictures on Aug. 6, 2027. Miami Vice ’85 will also be a period film, unlike Michael Mann’s 2006 Miami Vice movie that starred Jamie Foxx and Colin Farrell.

Butler will play James “Sonny” Crockett, a role originated by Don Johnson in the Universal TV series, while Jordan will portray fellow Miami undercover detective Ricardo Tubbs, which was Philip Michael Thomas’ role on the show.

Oscar winner Michael B. Jordan starred in Ryan Coogler’s Sinners, Black Panther and Creed III and is set to direct, star and produce a reimagining of The Thomas Crown Affair for Amazon MGM. Oscar nominee Butler played Elvis Presley in Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis and also appeared in Dune: Part Two, The Bikeriders, Masters of the Air and will also star in the upcoming A24 crime thriller Enemies.

Miami Vice began life as the Anthony Yerkovich-created TV series about two undercover Miami police officers known for their love of pastel suits and ran from 1984 to 1990 on NBC.

Production on the Miami Vice ’85 film will begin this year as Kosinski, coming off directing back-to-back blockbusters with F1: The Movie and Top Gun: Maverick, explores the glamour and corruption of mid-’80s Miami. Kosinski will shoot the film with Imax cameras, much as he did with F1 and Top Gun.

Miami Vice ’85 is produced by Dylan Clark and Kosinski, with Dan Gilroy having penned the script based on characters created by Yerkovich from the series he executive produced with Mann. Eric Warren Singer wrote an earlier draft of the screenplay.

Jordan is represented by 1v1 Entertainment and WME, while Butler is represented by WME and Brillstein. Kosinski is represented by CAA and Untitled Entertainment.

April 22, 2026
OpenAI Just Open-Sourced a Tool That Scrubs Your Secrets Before ChatGPT Ever Sees Them
In brief

OpenAI released Privacy Filter under Apache 2.0 on GitHub and Hugging Face.

The 1.5 billion-parameter model runs locally and masks names, addresses, and passwords.

It hits 96% F1 on the standard PII-Masking-300k benchmark out of the box.
Every day, millions of people paste things into ChatGPT they probably shouldn’t. Tax returns. Medical records. Work emails with client names. That weird rash. The API key they swore they’d rotate next week.

OpenAI just released a free tool that cleans all of it up before the chatbot ever sees it.

It’s called Privacy Filter, and it launched this week under the Apache 2.0 license, meaning anyone can download it, use it, modify it, and sell products built on top of it. The model lives on Hugging Face and GitHub, weighs in at 1.5 billion parameters (the metric that measures a model’s potential breadth of knowledge), and is small enough to run on a regular laptop.

Think of it as spellcheck, but for privacy. You feed it a block of text, and it hands back the same text with all the sensitive bits swapped for generic placeholders like [PRIVATE_PERSON] or [ACCOUNT_NUMBER].

Remember when people were able to unredact parts of the Jeffrey Epstein files because the Donald Trump administration simply used a black marker to try to hide those secrets? Had they used this model, that wouldn’t have been a problem.

What OpenAI’s Privacy Filter actually does

Privacy Filter scans for eight categories of personal information: names, addresses, emails, phone numbers, URLs, dates, account numbers, and secrets like passwords and API keys. It reads the whole text in one pass, then tags the sensitive parts so they can be masked or redacted.

Here’s a real example from OpenAI’s announcement. You paste in an email that says:

“Thanks again for meeting earlier today. (…) For reference, the project file is listed under 4829-1037-5581. If anything changes on your side, feel free to reply here at maya.chen@example.com or call me at +1 (415) 555-0124..”

Privacy Filter spits back:

“Thanks again for meeting earlier today (…) For reference, the project file is listed under [ACCOUNT_NUMBER]. If anything changes on your side, feel free to reply here at [PRIVATE_EMAIL] or call me at [PRIVATE_PHONE].”

Instead of dealing with black boxes and markers, it changes the actual text.

Plenty of tools already try to catch phone numbers and email addresses. They work by looking for patterns, like “three digits, dash, three digits.” That’s fine for obvious stuff but falls apart the second things get context-dependent.

Is “Annie” a private name or a brand? Is “123 Main Street” a person’s home or a business address on a storefront? Pattern matching can’t tell. Privacy Filter can, because it actually reads the sentence around it.

The model seems to be pretty good at detecting these nuances. OpenAI reports its model scored 96% on a standard benchmark using the PII-Masking-300k dataset out of the box, with a corrected version of the same test pushing it to 97.43%.

In other words, it successfully detects private information 96% of the time. Your job, as a privacy-conscious person is to take care of the other 4%

The “runs locally” part is the whole point

Privacy nerds may see this as a good thing: OpenAI made a model small and powerful enough to run on your machine, meaning your text never leaves your computer to get cleaned.

That matters because the alternative, the one most companies currently use, is sending your raw data to some cloud service that claims to be secure and then trusting them. That arrangement does not always age well.

It’s also free and open source, so researchers can investigate it, improve it, and use it without worrying about legal consequences.

The data gets sanitized on your laptop, and only the scrubbed version travels anywhere else. If you run a small business, it means you can use AI to summarize customer emails without handing the customer’s name to a third party. Freelance lawyers can feed case notes into a chatbot without leaking the client. Doctors can draft patient referrals without the patient’s identity. Developers can debug code with an AI without pasting their own API keys straight into the prompt, which is apparently a rite of passage nobody talks about.

For regular people, the use case is more mundane and more common. You want to ask ChatGPT to rewrite that angry email to your landlord, but you don’t love the idea of handing OpenAI your home address. Privacy Filter solves that in one step.

Running open-source AI models locally used to be a project for hobbyists with gaming GPUs. It isn’t anymore. Tools like LM Studio now make it roughly as hard as installing Spotify.

What it is not

OpenAI was blunt about the limits. The company warned that Privacy Filter “is not an anonymization tool, a compliance certification, or a substitute for policy review.”

Translation: don’t use it as your only line of defense in a hospital, law firm, or bank. It can miss unusual identifiers, over-redact short sentences, and performs unevenly across languages. It is one tool in a stack, not a compliance checkbox. After all, 96% accuracy is not 100% accuracy.

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April 22, 2026
Justin Sun Alleges Trump’s World Liberty Threatened to Burn His WLFI Tokens
In brief

In a lawsuit, Tron founder Justin Sun accused World Liberty Financial of trying to extort him into providing the DeFi project with more capital.

Sun was allegedly told that he could either voluntarily remove his tokens from circulation or leave that up to WLFI’s holders to decide.

Sun says he was wrongly accused of short-selling WLFI and causing the token’s price to plunge 40% in a single day.
A lawsuit filed by Justin Sun against World Liberty Financial has accused the Trump-backed crypto venture of trying to extort the Tron founder by allegedly threatening to destroy his WLFI holdings and report the controversial entrepreneur to U.S. authorities.

Not long after World Liberty blacklisted 4 billion WLFI in September that Sun had purchased, co-founder Chase Herro allegedly urged the crypto billionaire to voluntarily remove his tokens from circulation as part of an ultimatum, according to a 52-page complaint filed on Tuesday.

If Sun refused to do so, Herro allegedly told Sun that the decentralized finance project would ask holders to vote on wiping away his massive investment, a decision that would likely be pushed through—because World Liberty’s leadership controlled an overwhelming amount of WLFI in circulation.

Although World Liberty hasn’t explicitly addressed why Sun’s tokens were frozen, the lawsuit paints a picture of how the high-profile fallout may have occurred, in what allegedly amounted to “an effort to coerce Mr. Sun into providing more capital for the benefit of the company.”

Portions of the complaint are redacted, suggesting that the disagreement’s scope is not yet fully understood from Sun’s perspective.

“The only thing more ridiculous than this lawsuit is spending $6 million on a banana duct-taped to a wall,” Eric Trump said in an X post, referring to a piece of luxury art that Sun had purchased in November 2024.

“His claims are entirely meritless, and World Liberty looks forward to getting the case thrown out promptly,” said World Liberty co-founder Zach Witkoff—whose father Steve serves as U.S. President Donald Trump’s envoy to the Middle East—in an X post.

Decrypt has reached out to World Liberty and Sun representatives for comment.

In September, Herro allegedly threatened to report Sun to criminal authorities over “unspecified KYC issues”—months before the Tron founder resolved a three-year legal battle with the SEC, an agreement involving a $10 million penalty that raised corruption concerns among lawmakers and watchdogs. Under the arrangement, Sun neither admitted to nor denied wrongdoing.

Sun, who was previously charged with market manipulation, accused World Liberty’s team of attempting to artificially prop up WLFI’s price by trying to prevent a “large and prominent holder from selling and putting downward pressure on the token’s spot market price.”

The tokens that Sun received after investing $45 million in World Liberty remain frozen to this day. With WLFI changing hands around $0.08 on Wednesday, the entrepreneur’s holdings were valued at around $318 million, according to CoinGecko.

Sun claimed in the lawsuit that he was wrongly blamed by World Liberty for tanking WLFI’s price by 40% on a single day in September. On top of that, Sun alleged that World Liberty improperly accused him of short-selling the token, while also making unfavorable investments.

World Liberty was allegedly “upset” that Sun had purchased $100 million worth of an officially licensed meme coin that Trump debuted shortly before his second term began—a project run by a separate team from World Liberty. Still, Sun claims that his purchase of TRUMP meme coins was “pre-approved by a Trump family member.”

If true, the pre-approval would suggest that the Tron founder’s investment had granted access to members of Trump’s inner circle. In March, the DeFi project approved a measure providing “guaranteed” access to its team for WLFI’s largest backers.

Earlier this month, the feud boiled over in public as Sun accused World Liberty of misconduct and using the crypto community as its “personal ATM.” The company had used WLFI to take out massive stablecoin loans, and Sun said his qualms would be remedied if the DeFi project unlocked his tokens and disclosed the operators of its smart contracts.

“Justin’s favorite move is playing the victim while making baseless allegations to cover up his own misconduct,” World Liberty said in an X post. “See you in court pal.”

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April 22, 2026
Michael Jackson’s Nephew Slams Media Ahead of ‘Michael’ Biopic Release: ‘Can’t Wait ‘Till Some Critics Have to Eat Crow’

Just ahead of the Friday release of the Michael Jackson biopic “Michael,” a family member has taken gleeful aim at the media in a series of posts.

Taj Jackson, Michael’s nephew and the son of Jackson 5 member Tito, took to Twitter/X to jeer at the media writ large on Tuesday, saying it can no longer “control the narrative anymore of who Michael Jackson truly was. The public gets to watch this movie… they will decide for themselves,” before closing with: “And you can’t handle that.”

The film, directed by Antoine Fuqua and produced in part by Michael Jackson’s estate, covers the King of Pop’s life from 10-year-old member of the Jackson 5 through to the apex of his popularity – somewhere around 1988, when he was 30 years old and touring behind the epochal album Bad.

Originally, the film extended further into the future, addressing the shocking 1993 accusations of child molestation levied against Michael Jackson and the subsequent investigation. However, lawyers from the Jackson Estate found that a settlement with one accuser had precluded any depiction or mention of them in a film. The discovery meant a new third act had to be developed, requiring 22 days of reshoots at the cost of $15-20 million.

Earlier reporting from Variety shows predictions of a $65-70 million domestic opening for Michael with hopes for a $700 million overall, worldwide. The film currently sits at 37% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes from an aggregation of critics’ reviews.

“Can’t wait ‘till some critics have to eat crow,” Taj Jackson continued, adding, “And yes I will be that petty.”

April 22, 2026
France’s national agency for managing IDs and passports suffered a data breach last week

The French government confirmed that France Titres, also known as Agence nationale des titres sécurisés (ANTS), experienced a security breach last week. France Titres disclosed that it detected a data breach on April 15. The next day, a hacker claimed responsibility for the breach and claimed to have up to 19 million records that they are attempting to sell. According to Bleeping Computer, the data does not appear to have been widely leaked yet.

France Titres is responsible for the country’s identification and registration materials, including driver’s licenses, national ID cards, passports and immigration documents. The compromised data includes full names, email addresses, dates of birth, account identifiers, login IDs, phone numbers and mailing addresses. The department said that while the breach did not permit access to its portals, the exposed information could be used for phishing attacks or other illicit actions. The announcement advised caution regarding any suspicious communications claiming to be from the agency.

April 22, 2026
NASA targets a September launch for its next big space telescope

NASA’s next eye into the cosmos is due to leave our planet later this year. The agency says it’s targeting an early September launch for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. Roman (for short) has a field of view 100 times larger than Hubble’s.

The September date is the earliest possible launch for Roman. NASA says it will go up (aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket) no later than May 2027.

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, named after NASA’s first chief astronomer and “mother” of Hubble, was introduced in 2016. (Back then, it was known as the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope, or WFIRST.) The telescope’s mirror is roughly the same size as Hubble’s, but it can capture sections of the sky at least 100 times larger than its predecessor.

NASA

“Roman will work in tandem with NASA observatories such as the James Webb Space Telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory, which are designed to zoom in on rare transient objects once they’ve been identified, but seldom if ever discover them,” Julie McEnery, Roman’s senior project scientist, said in 2023. “Roman’s much larger field of view will reveal many such objects that were previously unknown. And since we’ve never had an observatory like this scanning the cosmos before, we could even find entirely new classes of objects and events.”

After leaving our atmosphere, Roman will set course for a vantage point nearly 1 million miles from Earth. There, it will rely on a pair of instruments to study space. The first is a 300.8-megapixel camera that captures light from visible to near-infrared. There’s also a high-contrast coronagraph that will allow it to capture exoplanets that would otherwise be blocked by starlight.

Roman’s mission: “to settle essential questions in the areas of dark energy, exoplanets and astrophysics.” Despite decades of study, astronomers know surprisingly little about dark energy, which makes up about 68 percent of the universe’s contents. And while scientific discoveries are cool and all, you’ll be pleased to know that Roman is also sure to beam back more dazzling pictures of our cosmos.

April 22, 2026