Belatedly Habitable Planets
CEHW Graduate student Noah Tuchow and CEHW Professor Jason Wright introduce “Belatedly Habitable Planets”, a new type of...
Read MoreDr. Gudmundur Stefansson wins Trumpler Award for Outstanding PhD Dissertation
THE RECIPIENT OF THE 2020 ROBERT J. TRUMPLER AWARD (PRESENTED IN 2021) IS DR. GUDMUNDUR KARI STEFANSSON, WHO COMPLETED HIS PHD IN...
Read MoreA journey of exoplanet discovery begins as Penn State’s NEID spectrometer starts its scientific mission
Suvrath Mahadevan and Sam Sholtis The NEID spectrometer, a new tool for the discovery of planets outside of our solar system, has now...
Read MorePenn State led NEID team receives NASA Group Achievement Award
The NEID instrument team, led by Penn State Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics Suvrath Mahadevan, was recognized by NASA with the...
Read MoreA very stealthy alias: the impostor planet of Barnard’s star
Introduction One of the signature targets of HPF’s search for nearby exoplanets is Barnard’s star, the second-closest star...
Read MoreCEHW Professor Rebekah Dawson honored with Warner Prize for Astronomy
Rebekah Dawson, Shaffer Career Development Professor in Science at Penn State, has been awarded the 2021 Helen B. Warner Prize for...
Read MoreCEHW astronomers develop model for the distribution of inner planetary systems
Statistical model may help unravel the mystery of apparently single-planet systems and aid exoplanet-seeking missions Data from the Kepler...
Read MoreWhere to search for signs of life
A recent study accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal proposes a new strategy for searching for biosignatures, chemical...
Read MoreHPF discovers a Jupiter transiting the cool star TOI-1899
HPF has confirmed the planetary nature of a single-transiting Jupiter-sized planet (1.15 Jupiter radii) orbiting a nearby low mass M dwarf...
Read MoreHPF discovers a warm super Neptune – TOI-1728b
The Discovery A component of HPF’s on-sky time is used to follow up on potential planets discovered by NASA’s Transiting...
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