From a childhood moment beneath the moon to the helm of humanity's most data-rich eye on the cosmos, Nicola Fox's journey mirrors the oldest of human impulses — to look upward and ask whether we are alone. NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, now operational, represents not merely a technological leap beyond Hubble but a philosophical one: a civilisation turning its full attention, with unprecedented precision, toward the questions of dark matter, distant worlds, and the possibility of life elsewhere. In the vast silence between galaxies, Roman listens — transmitting 1.4 terabytes of wond