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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Extremely Precise Radial Velocities Workshop
Penn State hosted the Third Extremely Precise Radial Velocities workshop August 14-17, 2017. For more details, see the meeting...
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“The Next Step In The Search For Aliens Is A Huge Telescope And A Ton Of Math” – FiveThirtyEight.com
FiveThirtyEight.com recently reported on two broad approaches to learning about potentially habitable exoplanets and perhaps even signs of...
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CEHW at Kepler & K2 Science Conference IV
This week, over 270 researchers gathered at NASA Ames Research Center for the final Kepler & K2 Science Conference to discuss the...
Read MoreCongrats to Recent CEHW PhD’s
Congratulations to the four CEHW graduate students who successfully defended their Ph.D. defenses. Natasha Batalha Title: “A Synergistic...
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New planet found to be hotter than most stars
A newly discovered Jupiter-like world is so hot that even its nights are like the flame of a welding torch. The gas giant has a “year”...
Read MoreAngie Wolfgang on WPSU’s Take Note
Listen to the WPSU interview speaks with Dr. Angie Wolfgang, a National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellow at the Center for...
Read MorePrior Indigenous Technological Species
Gizmodo reports on CEHW Professor Jason Wright’s recent pondering on whether scientists could do a better job of searching for...
Read MoreIn search of Earth analogues: Detecting exoplanets amid stellar noise
The April 2017 issue of Significance has a popular-level story about the challenges of detecting low-mass exoplanets. The article was...
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