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UK aims to lead an instrument on NASA mission to find habitable worlds

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Artist's concept still of the Habitable Worlds Observatory. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab

The UK Space Agency is taking its first step towards contributing to NASA’s Habitable Worlds Observatory, which will search for life beyond our Solar System. The Agency is launching a call for proposals to explore the feasibility of a UK-led scientific instrument for the mission.