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NASA starts designing futuristic space telescope to hunt for alien Earths

NASA’s latest flagship telescope is still in its first year of science, but the agency isn’t only hard at work building its successor — it’s starting to plan that next mission’s successor as well.

In November 2021, a decadal document produced by the U.S. National Academies of Sciences directed NASA’s astrophysics division to concentrate its efforts on the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, currently targeting launch in the mid-2020s. But the report also nudged NASA to get a start on the subsequent flagship astrophysics mission, which it recommended be a space telescope observing in infrared, optical and ultraviolet light that could search for habitable exoplanets and signs of life on them.

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