by Eric Ford | Nov 30, 2023 | Exoplanet & Brown Dwarf Surveys, Featured, Planet-forming & Debris Disks, Press Coverage, Research, Star & Planet Formation
Congrats to former CEHW graduate student, Dr. Gudmundur Stefansson, and the rest of the team on their recent paper in Science that reports the discovery of a Neptune-mass exoplanet in close orbit around a very low-mass star using the Habitable Zone Planet Finder and...
by Eric Ford | Nov 30, 2023 | Featured, Planet-forming & Debris Disks, Press Coverage, Research, Star & Planet Formation
CEHW Professor Eric Feigelson is a member of the XUE (eXtreme UV environments) collaboration that found potentially planets with water could form even in the harshest known planet-forming environments using JWST. Earth-like planets, including planets with water, could...
by Eric Ford | Mar 23, 2022 | Featured, Our Solar System, Star Properties
CEHW undergrad alumna Anna Baum and Prof. Jason Wright identified a nearby star whose sunspot cycles appear to have stopped. Read more in the Penn State press release.
by Eric Ford | Oct 13, 2021 | Exoplanet & Brown Dwarf Surveys, Featured, Orbital Dynamics, Star & Planet Formation
A newly discovered gas giant planet with an elliptical, comet-like orbit is closing in on its host star, according to new research by a Penn State graduate student and a team of collaborators. The researchers believe the planet, discovered using data from NASA’s...
by Eric Ford | Dec 1, 2020 | Exoplanet & Brown Dwarf Surveys, Featured, News, Publications, Star & Planet Formation, Statistical Methodology & Data Analysis
Statistical model may help unravel the mystery of apparently single-planet systems and aid exoplanet-seeking missions Data from the Kepler space telescope, launched more than a decade ago, is still helping astronomers who study planets outside of our own solar system...
by Arvind Gupta | Nov 13, 2020 | Featured, Life Beyond Earth & Astrobiology, News, Publications, Research
A recent study accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal proposes a new strategy for searching for biosignatures, chemical evidence of the presence of life on exoplanets. CEHW graduate student Noah Tuchow and professor Jason Wright have developed a...
