Eric Ford

The Center for Exoplanets & Habitable Worlds is celebrating its 10th anniversary in academic year 2018/19. To commemorate the...

A new Penn State Extraterrestrial Intelligence (PSETI) Center that will compliment the Center for Exoplanets & Habitable Worlds was...

A report by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine sets the stage for Penn State’s Center for Exoplanets and...

“Water world” planets, those covered with a deep global ocean, could maintain surface conditions similar to that of the Earth for over a...

NASA NExSS and NPP postdoc Dr. Eva Bodman recently published a paper on “Inferring the Composition of Disintegrating Planet...

Posted on Aug 20, 2018 in Announcements, News | 0 comments

Please join us in welcome new CEHW postdocs Dr. Zhao Guo and Dr. Daniel Stevens. Zhao earned his Ph.D. from Georgia State University with...

Posted on Jul 10, 2018 in Awards & Honors | 0 comments

Rebekah Dawson, assistant professor of astronomy and astrophysics at Penn State, has been awarded the Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty...

Posted on Feb 16, 2018 in Awards & Honors, News | 0 comments

Congratulations to CEHW Professor Rebekah Dawson who was recently honored with an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, a prestigious award...

Posted on Jan 13, 2018 in Events | 0 comments

“Is There Life on Other Planets” is the question we will explore during the 2018 Penn State Lectures on the Frontiers of...

Posted on Jan 3, 2018 in News | 0 comments

A team of more than 200 researchers, including Penn State Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Assistant Professor Jason Wright and...