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CEHW Professor Rebekah Dawson honored with Warner Prize for Astronomy

Posted on Feb 25, 2021 in Awards & Honors, News | 0 comments

Rebekah Dawson, Shaffer Career Development Professor in Science at Penn State, has been awarded the 2021 Helen B. Warner Prize for...

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CEHW astronomers develop model for the distribution of inner planetary systems

Posted on Dec 1, 2020 in Exoplanet & Brown Dwarf Surveys, Featured, News, Publications, Star & Planet Formation, Statistical Methodology & Data Analysis | 0 comments

Statistical model may help unravel the mystery of apparently single-planet systems and aid exoplanet-seeking missions Data from the Kepler...

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CEHW Professor Rebekah Dawson named Shaffer Career Development Professorship in Science

Posted on Aug 14, 2020 in Announcements, Awards & Honors | 0 comments

Congratulations to CEHW Professor Rebekah Dawson for being appointed by Dean Cavener to the Shaffer Career Development Professorship in...

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CEHW Professor Dawson honored with Urey Prize

Posted on Aug 14, 2020 in Awards & Honors, Featured, News | 0 comments

The Division for Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society is pleased to award the 2020 Harold C. Urey Prize for outstanding...

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Welcome to Ian Czekala

Posted on Aug 5, 2020 in Announcements | 0 comments

CEHW welcomes its newest faculty member, Dr. Ian Czekala.  Ian’s current research focuses on sub-mm interferometry of protoplanetary...

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A young sub-Neptune-sized planet sheds light onto how planets form and evolve

Posted on Aug 5, 2020 in Exoplanet & Brown Dwarf Surveys, Featured, Instrumentation, Planetary Atmospheres & Interiors | 0 comments

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — The detailed characterization of a young planet slightly smaller than Neptune provides insight into how such...

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CEHW Alumna Arpita Roy named NASA Sagan Fellow

Posted on Mar 26, 2020 in Announcements | 0 comments

Congratulations to recent CEHW graduate student, Dr. Arpita Roy who was named a 2020 Sagan Fellow based on her proposal “Of Worlds...

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New type of pulsating star discovered

Posted on Mar 10, 2020 in News | 0 comments

CEHW postdoc Zhao Guo’s research recently appeared in Nature Astronomy and a ECoS press release. Image Caption: A new type of...

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Sub-Neptune sized planet validated with the Habitable-zone Planet Finder

Posted on Feb 20, 2020 in Exoplanet & Brown Dwarf Surveys, News, Research | 0 comments

A signal originally detected by the Kepler spacecraft has been validated as an exoplanet using the Habitable-zone Planet Finder (HPF), an...

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Looking for aliens who might be looking for us

Posted on Feb 17, 2020 in Life Beyond Earth & Astrobiology, News, Uncategorized | 0 comments

Data from a massive search for cosmic radio emission released Feb 14. by the Breakthrough Listen Initiative—the most comprehensive survey...

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