NASA's Pandora satellite lifted off on January 11, 2026, aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 from Vandenberg Space Force Base, marking the debut of the agency's Astrophysics Pioneers program. This compact ...

Pandora, a small satellite mission poised to provide in-depth study of at least 20 known planets orbiting distant stars to determine the composition of their atmospheres cleared an important milestone ...

An artist's concept of the Pandora mission, seen here without the thermal blanketing that will protect the spacecraft, observing a star and its transiting exoplanet. Pandora, NASA's newest exoplanet ...