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NASA’s Pandora Exoplanet Telescope Confirms Healthy Status in Orbit

Commissioning now begins for a yearlong campaign using simultaneous visible and infrared observations to untangle stellar noise from exoplanet signals.

Cassini Reanalysis Finds Complex Organics From Enceladus’s Ocean in Fresh Plume Grains

Doubts Deepen Over Potential Biosignature on Exoplanet K2-18b