Tag: habitable
Are We Alone? NASA’s Habitable Worlds Observatory Aims to Find Out
NASA’s First-Ever Alien-Hunting Space Telescope Could Enlighten Our New Dark Age The Habitable Worlds Observatory is poised to tell us whether Earth-like planets are common—if it can get off the ground By Nadia Drake & Lee Billings An animated rendering of several engineering architecture concepts for NASA’s Habitable Worlds Observatory, a next-generation flagship-class space telescope…
JWST Sees Hints of an Atmosphere on a Potentially Habitable Exoplanet
Hints of Atmosphere on Earth-Sized Exoplanet Raise Hopes for Life A monumental sign of an atmosphere on TRAPPIST-1e could be the precursor to finally finding a living world around another star By Jonathan O’Callaghan edited by Lee Billings This artist’s concept shows the volatile red dwarf star TRAPPIST-1 and its four most closely orbiting planets,…