What Can We Actually Find on an Exoplanet? Part 2: A Machine to Find Another Earth

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The James Webb Space Telescope.</p><p>Its eventual successor, the Habitable Worlds Observatory, is being designed for one job above all: to directly image another living Earth.</p><p>Credit: NASA (public domain).https://www.universetoday.com/article_images/header_20260814_095614.jpg" width="1280" />

The Habitable Worlds Observatory is being built for one purpose: to directly image another living Earth.

Inside the coronagraph that must block ten billion times the planet's light, the picometer-stable mirror we don't yet know how to build, and the messy problem of reading an atmosphere.

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