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fromwww.scientificamerican.com
2 days ago

NASA's First-Ever Alien-Hunting Space Telescope Could Enlighten Our New Dark Age

The Habitable Worlds Observatory aims to directly image Earth-size planets around sunlike stars to detect biosignatures and determine how common Earth-like worlds are.
fromBig Think
1 month ago

NASA's Habitable Worlds Observatory: the future (or end) of NASA science

The Habitable Worlds Observatory is a proposed flagship NASA mission that aims to discover inhabited planets beyond our Solar System, similar to the contributions made by the Hubble or JWST.
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fromTheregister
3 months ago

NASA tests shrinking metals to help it find more exoplanets

NASA is developing a metal alloy that shrinks when heated for the Habitable Worlds Observatory's requirements. This addresses thermal expansion challenges in space telescopes.
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