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.
Source: [Phys.org](https://phys.org/news/2026-07-nasa-habitable-worlds-observatory.html)