Breakthrough Listen
Breakthrough Listen is a $100 million, 10-year initiative centered at UC Berkeley to find technosignatures, i.e. signs of technological...
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Hobby-Eberly Telescope (HET) Gets an Upgrade
Read more about the HET upgrade in the press release. Image Captionn: The Hobby-Eberly Telescope. Credit: Ethan Tweedie...
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A disintegrating minor planet transiting a white dwarf
Astronomers have discovered evidence for a rocky planet being destroyed and material from the planet being accreted onto a white dwarf....
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NASA picks Penn State-led team to Advance Concept for a Precision Planet Hunting Instrument
On a rugged Arizona mountaintop, astronomers will soon switch on a new, state-of-the-art instrument to hunt for planets circling distant...
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The mass of the Mars-sized exoplanet, Kepler-138b
A First: Exoplanet smaller than Earth gets its size and mass measured A team of astronomers has measured the mass and size of the smallest...
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Videos from Emerging Researchers in Exoplanet Science Symposium are online
You can now watch videos of most oral presentations from the 2015 Emerging Researchers in Exoplanet Science Symposium...
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California Planet Survey
Links California Planet Survey Faculty Contacts Jason Wright Eric Ford ...
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Early Career Scientists Gather at Penn State for Symposium on Exoplanet Science
The Penn State Center for Exoplanets and Habitable Worlds is bringing together early career scientists from around the country to share...
Read MoreMINERVA Telescope Array Dedicated in Ceremony on Mount Hopkins
The MINERVA telescope array in Arizona was dedicated in an official ceremony at the facility on Mount Hopkins on May 18, 2015. MINERVA...
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CEHW Professor named National Finalist for the 2015 Blavatnik National Award in Physical Sciences & Engineering.
Penn State Professor of Astronomy & Astrophysics, Eric Ford, has been named one of eleven National Finalists for the 2015 Blavatnik...
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