Nasa’s Habitable Worlds Observatory, launching in the 2040s, will depend on robotic spacecraft for maintenance and upgrades due to its distant location near Lagrange Point 2.
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Three decades of finding new worlds Exoplanet science has moved fast since the first confirmed discoveries in the 1990s.
NASA’s Viking 1 lander set down in the Chryse Planitia region of Mars. Its identical twin, Viking 2, followed on Sept. 3 of ...
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JWST detected rising methane emissions from interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, exposing ancient interior ice and offering new ...