by Eric Ford | Mar 17, 2025 | Featured, News, Research, Star & Planet Formation
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 Astronomical Journal.
by Eric Ford | Feb 17, 2025 | Press Coverage
New theory proposes that humans — and analogous life beyond Earth — may represent the probable outcome of biological and planetary evolution Adrienne Berard 17 February 2025 Humanity may not be extraordinary but rather the natural evolutionary outcome for our planet...
by Eric Ford | Feb 5, 2025 | Exoplanet & Brown Dwarf Surveys, Featured, News, Press Coverage
Using data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia mission, and the Habitable Zone Planet Finder and NEID Spectrometers developed at Penn State, scientists, including Penn State astronomers, have found a huge exoplanet and a brown dwarf. This is the first time a planet...
by Eric Ford | Jan 16, 2025 | Featured, News, Planetary Atmospheres & Interiors, Press Coverage, Research
CEHW Graduate student Nick Tusay led a JWST program to measure the mineralogical composition of an exoplanet, K2-22b, and presented his results at a press conference at the 2024 Winter AAS Meeting. Read more in stories from Science News and Live Science.
by Eric Ford | Dec 3, 2024 | Featured, Orbital Dynamics, Planetary Atmospheres & Interiors, Press Coverage, Star & Planet Formation
The unusual system of three ‘super puff’ planets has at least one more planet, revealed by its gravitational tug on other planets An unusual planetary system with three known ultra-low density “super-puff” planets has at least one more planet, according to...
