Earth's climate is influenced by over a dozen feedbacks, but only three dominate its long-term climate behavior. Models of the exoplanet habitable zone (HZ) assume that this is similar for other Earth...

An incredible 24 hours! After a picture-perfect launch, Pandora is now in orbit, with solar panels deployed and alive (receiving commands from ground! After seven years of working on this project, …

The findings from Pandora will complement data from the James Webb Space Telescope to give astronomers more insight into stars and planets outside our solar system.

As NASA rolls out more powerful telescopes in the future, scientists will need a way to determine where to point them. A new approach could help.

Biosignature detection in the atmospheres of Earth-like exoplanets is one of the most significant and ambitious goals for astronomy, astrobiology, and humanity. Molecular oxygen is among the strongest...

The successful applicant will conduct original research in collaboration with Prof. Sukrit Ranjan and his group related to the composition and structu...

Bioverse: Giant Magellan Telescope and Extremely Large Telescope Direct Imaging and High-resolution Spectroscopy Assessment—Surveying Exo-Earth O2 and Testing the Habitable Zone Oxygen Hypothesis, Hardegree-Ullman, Kevin K., Apai, Dániel, Haffert, Sebastiaan Y., Schlecker, Martin, Kasper, Markus, Kammerer, Jens, Wagner, Kevin

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