Massive planet too big for its own sun pushes astronomers to rethink exoplanet formation
Congrats to former CEHW graduate student, Dr. Gudmundur Stefansson, and the rest of the team on their recent paper in Science that reports...
Read MoreEarth-like planets could form even in the harshest environments
CEHW Professor Eric Feigelson is a member of the XUE (eXtreme UV environments) collaboration that found potentially planets with water...
Read MoreMany exoplanets have nearly circular orbits
New analysis of observational data from NASA’s Kepler space telescope catalogs planetary properties; informs climate of planets Most...
Read MoreNearby star could help explain why our sun didn’t have sunspots for 70 years
CEHW undergrad alumna Anna Baum and Prof. Jason Wright identified a nearby star whose sunspot cycles appear to have stopped. Read more in...
Read MoreBelatedly Habitable Planets
CEHW Graduate student Noah Tuchow and CEHW Professor Jason Wright introduce “Belatedly Habitable Planets”, a new type of...
Read MoreNewly discovered gas giant moving closer to its star
A newly discovered gas giant planet with an elliptical, comet-like orbit is closing in on its host star, according to new research by a...
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 MoreRapid Formation of Super-Earths Around Low-Mass Stars
Simulating the formation of super-Earths around M dwarfs A recent study accepted for publication in the Monthly Notices of the Royal...
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