Uploaded July 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Finding signs of life on planets outside our solar system will require a more powerful space telescope than any ever built. NASA’s Habitable Worlds Observatory will draw on technologies proven by the agency’s Hubble, Webb and upcoming Roman Space Telescopes to peer into the cosmos and find the unique signatures of planets that can support life as well as possibly life itself.
Actor John Rhys-Davies narrates this short video about the mission and its objectives.
Music credit: “Learning to Fly,” Andre Jesus Oliviera [PRS], Universal Production Music
Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
Narrator: John Rhys-Davies
Animators:
Chris Smith (KBR Wyle Services, LLC)
Jonathan North (eMITS)
Jenny McElligott (eMITS)
Producers:
Scott Wiessinger (eMITS)
Chris Smith (KBR Wyle Services, LLC)
Claire Andreoli (NASA/GSFC)
Editor: Scott Wiessinger (eMITS)
Audio engineer: Jacob Pinter (eMITS)
Writers:
Claire Andreoli (NASA/GSFC)
Chris Smith (KBR Wyle Services, LLC)
Yesenia Arroyo (Southeastern Universities Research Association)
Pat Brennan (JPL)
Scientists:
Aki Roberge (NASA/GSFC)
Giada Arney (NASA/GSFC)
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Finding signs of life on planets outside our solar system will require a more powerful space telescope than any ever built. NASA’s Habitable Worlds Observatory will draw on technologies proven by the agency’s Hubble, Webb and upcoming Roman Space Telescopes to peer into the cosmos and find the unique signatures of planets that can support life as well as possibly life itself.
Actor John Rhys-Davies narrates this short video about the mission and its objectives.
Music credit: “Learning to Fly,” Andre Jesus Oliviera [PRS], Universal Production Music
Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
Narrator: John Rhys-Davies
Animators:
Chris Smith (KBR Wyle Services, LLC)
Jonathan North (eMITS)
Jenny McElligott (eMITS)
Producers:
Scott Wiessinger (eMITS)
Chris Smith (KBR Wyle Services, LLC)
Claire Andreoli (NASA/GSFC)
Editor: Scott Wiessinger (eMITS)
Audio engineer: Jacob Pinter (eMITS)
Writers:
Claire Andreoli (NASA/GSFC)
Chris Smith (KBR Wyle Services, LLC)
Yesenia Arroyo (Southeastern Universities Research Association)
Pat Brennan (JPL)
Scientists:
Aki Roberge (NASA/GSFC)
Giada Arney (NASA/GSFC)
This video can be freely shared and downloaded at svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14861. While the video in its entirety can be shared without permission, the music and some individual imagery may have been obtained through permission and may not be excised or remixed in other products. Specific details on such imagery may be found here: svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14861. For more information on NASA’s media guidelines, visit nasa.gov/multimedia/guidelines.
If you liked this video, subscribe to the NASA Goddard YouTube channel: youtube.com/NASAGoddard
Follow NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
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· X twitter.com/NASAGoddard
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· Flickr flickr.com/photos/gsfc
