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How NASA Plans to Build the Habitable Worlds Observatory

The observatory’s wide field will survey billions of galaxies and help scientists probe dark matter, dark energy and thousands of new planets.

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We’ve been covering the journey of the Habitable Worlds Observatory for some time now. Over the past few years, it's gone from a proposal to a relatively fleshed-out plan for how and what the next Great Observatory should do—in this case, look at and characterize potentially habitable exoplanets. Back in August 2024, NASA set up the HWO Technology Maturation Project Office (TMPO) to coordinate the technological and scientific development needed …

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NASA is making progress in developing the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO), a mission aimed at characterizing potentially habitable exoplanets. Recently, the space agency released a comprehensive plan for the initial stages of the project, which includes coordinating technologies essential to the mission's success. Development of the Habitable Worlds Observatory: The HWO has evolved from an initial proposal to a detailed plan, with the establi…

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