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Planning is well underway for NASA’s Habitable Worlds Observatory, a telescope project that will hunt for telltale signs of life in the atmospheres of planets outside the solar system.

Planning is well underway for NASA’s Habitable Worlds Observatory, a telescope project that will hunt for telltale signs of life in the atmospheres of planets outside the solar system.

Permits are required to catch an unobstructed view of the dazzling celestial events on the horizon.

Scientists have been listening for signals from extraterrestrial civilizations for decades, but what would they do if they actually heard one?

June 4, 2021 Here’s what the biggest giant planet in our solar system, Jupiter, looks like. The Juno spacecraft captured this image during its 31st close flyby of Jupiter on December 30, 2020. The storm known as the Great Red Spot is visible on the horizon, nearly rotated out of view. Citizen scientist Tanya Oleksuik created this color-enhanced image using data from the JunoCam camera. Image via NASA. Our solar system is normal In late May 2021, astronomers released new results in a 30-year c...