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Habitable Worlds Observatory Would Directly Image Earth-Like Planets

Tech Proposals to Advance Search-for-Life Mission Selected by NASA

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Tom Patton
Jan 09, 2026
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The selection of multiple industry proposals to advance technologies for the agency’s Habitable Worlds Observatory concept – the first mission that would directly image Earth-like planets around stars like our Sun and study the chemical composition of their atmospheres for signs of life – have been announced by NASA.

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