Habitability of Exoplanet Water Worlds
“Water world” planets, those covered with a deep global ocean, could maintain surface conditions similar to that of the Earth for over a...
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Measuring Rocky Exoplanet Compositions with the James Webb Space Telescope
NASA NExSS and NPP postdoc Dr. Eva Bodman recently published a paper on “Inferring the Composition of Disintegrating Planet...
Read MoreWelcoming New CEHW Members
Please join us in welcome new CEHW postdocs Dr. Zhao Guo and Dr. Daniel Stevens. Zhao earned his Ph.D. from Georgia State University with...
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CEHW Professor Dawson honored with Powe Award
Rebekah Dawson, assistant professor of astronomy and astrophysics at Penn State, has been awarded the Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty...
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CEHW Professor Rebekah Dawson awarded Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship
Congratulations to CEHW Professor Rebekah Dawson who was recently honored with an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, a prestigious award...
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Is There Life on Other Planets? – 2018 Penn State Lectures on the Frontiers of Science
“Is There Life on Other Planets” is the question we will explore during the 2018 Penn State Lectures on the Frontiers of...
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Alien Megastructure not the cause of mysteriously dimming star
A team of more than 200 researchers, including Penn State Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Assistant Professor Jason Wright and...
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First Starlight for Habitable Zone Planet Finder
The Habitable zone Planet Finder (HPF) obtained its first observations of stars on 5 November. The figure displays a sample spectrum from...
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Astronomers discover sunscreen snow falling on hot exoplanet
Astronomers at Penn State have used the Hubble Space Telescope to find a blistering-hot giant planet outside our solar system where the...
Read MoreWelcoming New CEHW Members
Please join us in welcoming our new CEHW postdocs, Dr. Sarah Morrison & Dr. Ari Silburt. Dr. Sarah Morrison joins the department as a...
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