by Eric Ford | Oct 26, 2025 | Exoplanet & Brown Dwarf Surveys, Featured, Life Beyond Earth & Astrobiology
The discovery of a possible “super-Earth” less than 20 light-years from our own planet is offering scientists new hope in the hunt for other worlds that could harbor life, according to an international team including researchers from Penn State. They dubbed the...
by Eric Ford | Aug 29, 2025 | Life Beyond Earth & Astrobiology, Star & Planet Formation
CEHW researchers find a strikingly unusual chemical composition for a newly discovered planet-forming disk. Read more at Penn State News.
by Eric Ford | May 21, 2025 | Featured, News, Research, Star & Planet Formation
Astronomers at Penn State use data from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and theoretical modeling to study a distant, irradiated protoplanetary disk The fundamental building blocks for planet formation can exist even in environments with extreme ultraviolet...
by Eric Ford | Apr 15, 2025 | Announcements
Dr. Alessandro Morbidelli from the Collège de France will give this year’s Friedman lectures, “The Diversity of Planetary Systems: How Singular Is Our Own?” at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, April 15, in Freeman Auditorium, HUB-Robeson Center, and a more-specialized...
by Eric Ford | Mar 17, 2025 | News, Press Coverage
Read the story about how CEHW Professor Kevin Luhman took the picture on a recent postage stamp.
