The world of Pandora, as director James Cameron brought it to life in the Avatar franchise, presents audiences with a lush, beautiful planet. The vast oceans and expansive forests utilize the ...

The search for habitable worlds beyond the solar system now faces a more technical obstacle than distance: uncertainty in the data itself. As space telescopes grow more precise, so too does the ...

Since the release of the original Avatar in 2009, James Cameron’s epic interstellar franchise has taken over popular culture ...

An artist's conception of Pandora observing an exoplanet.NASA Editor at Large It was one of humanity’s greater vanities that we ever questioned whether there are any planets in the universe beyond the ...

A small space telescope with the eyes of a giant will spend the next year studying the planets around distant stars, and the University of Arizona will serve as mission control. The refrigerator-sized ...

On Jan. 11, 2026, I watched anxiously at the tightly controlled Vandenberg Space Force Base in California as an awe-inspiring SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carried NASA's new exoplanet telescope, Pandora, ...

Artist's concept of NASA's Pandora mission, which will help scientists untangle the signals from the atmospheres of exoplanets – worlds beyond our solar system – and their stars. Pandora, the latest ...

Amid a new wave of interest in the possibility of life on other worlds, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and NASA are embarking on a new effort to identify planets with the basic compounds for ...

Pandora, the latest in a long portfolio of University of Arizona's space science missions, has cleared its last major milestone on its journey into space. This week, Pandora—a satellite about the size ...