by Eric Ford | May 21, 2025 | Featured, News, Research, Star & Planet Formation
Astronomers at Penn State use data from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and theoretical modeling to study a distant, irradiated protoplanetary disk The fundamental building blocks for planet formation can exist even in environments with extreme ultraviolet...
by Eric Ford | Apr 15, 2025 | Announcements
Dr. Alessandro Morbidelli from the Collège de France will give this year’s Friedman lectures, “The Diversity of Planetary Systems: How Singular Is Our Own?” at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, April 15, in Freeman Auditorium, HUB-Robeson Center, and a more-specialized...
by Eric Ford | Mar 17, 2025 | News, Press Coverage
Read the story about how CEHW Professor Kevin Luhman took the picture on a recent postage stamp.
by Eric Ford | Mar 17, 2025 | Featured, News, Research, Star & Planet Formation
Penn State Presidential and CEHW Postdoc Dr. Rachel Fernandes led a study to better understand the processes shapes the size and location of sub-Neptunes. Read the press release or the paper published in the Astronomical Journal.
by Eric Ford | Feb 17, 2025 | Press Coverage
New theory proposes that humans — and analogous life beyond Earth — may represent the probable outcome of biological and planetary evolution Adrienne Berard 17 February 2025 Humanity may not be extraordinary but rather the natural evolutionary outcome for our planet...
by Eric Ford | Feb 5, 2025 | Exoplanet & Brown Dwarf Surveys, Featured, News, Press Coverage
Using data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia mission, and the Habitable Zone Planet Finder and NEID Spectrometers developed at Penn State, scientists, including Penn State astronomers, have found a huge exoplanet and a brown dwarf. This is the first time a planet...
