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The Center for Exoplanets & Habitable Worlds seeks to discover planets beyond our solar system, to characterize planetary systems and their host stars, and to understand the implications of the abundance of potentially habitable planets for the possibility of life beyond Earth and the origins of our own solar system.   —   Learn More

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CEHW faculty’s JWST Image on postage stamp

Posted on Mar 17, 2025 in News, Press Coverage | 0 comments

Read the story about how CEHW Professor Kevin Luhman took the picture on a recent postage stamp.

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Combination of cosmic processes shapes the size and location of sub-Neptunes

Posted on Mar 17, 2025 in Featured, News, Research, Star & Planet Formation | 0 comments

Penn State Presidential and CEHW Postdoc Dr. Rachel Fernandes led a study to better understand the processes shapes the size and location of sub-Neptunes. Read the press release or the paper published in the...

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Does planetary evolution favor human-like life?

Posted on Feb 17, 2025 in Press Coverage | 0 comments

New theory proposes that humans — and analogous life beyond Earth — may...

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Wobbling stars reveal hidden companions in Gaia data

Posted on Feb 5, 2025 in Exoplanet & Brown Dwarf Surveys, Featured, News, Press Coverage | 0 comments

Using data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia mission, and the Habitable...

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New planet in Kepler-51 system discovered using James Webb Space Telescope

Posted on Dec 3, 2024 in Featured, Orbital Dynamics, Planetary Atmospheres & Interiors, Press Coverage, Star & Planet Formation | 0 comments

The unusual system of three ‘super puff’ planets has at least one...

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Using machine learning, modeling to detect Earth-like planets

Posted on Jun 14, 2024 in Press Coverage | 0 comments

The Institute for Computational & Data Sciences wrote a faculty profile...

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