{"id":3927151,"date":"2026-07-24T10:05:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T15:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/uk-in-pole-position-to-lead-key-instrument-in-nasas-hunt-for-earth-like-worlds\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T10:05:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T15:05:21","slug":"uk-in-pole-position-to-lead-key-instrument-in-nasas-hunt-for-earth-like-worlds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/uk-in-pole-position-to-lead-key-instrument-in-nasas-hunt-for-earth-like-worlds\/","title":{"rendered":"UK in pole position to lead key instrument in NASA&#8217;s hunt for Earth-like worlds"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>UK astronomers are a step closer to playing a leading role in NASA&#8217;s search for alien life in the coming decades as they continue developing one of the core instruments of the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO). The exciting mission\u2014the U.S. space agency&#8217;s next flagship space telescope after the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope\u2014is expected to launch in the 2040s.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-07-uk-pole-position-key-instrument.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK astronomers are a step closer to playing a leading role in NASA&#8217;s search for alien life in the coming decades as they continue developing one of the core instruments of the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO). The exciting mission\u2014the U.S. space agency&#8217;s next flagship space telescope after the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope\u2014is expected to [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3927151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3927151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3927151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3927151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3927151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}