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CEHW Graduate student Noah Tuchow and CEHW Professor Jason Wright introduce “Belatedly Habitable Planets”, a new type of...

Posted on Aug 25, 2021 in Awards & Honors, News | 0 comments

THE RECIPIENT OF THE 2020 ROBERT J. TRUMPLER AWARD (PRESENTED IN 2021) IS DR. GUDMUNDUR KARI STEFANSSON, WHO COMPLETED HIS PHD IN...

Suvrath Mahadevan and Sam Sholtis The NEID spectrometer, a new tool for the discovery of planets outside of our solar system, has now...

The NEID instrument team, led by Penn State Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics Suvrath Mahadevan, was recognized by NASA with the...

Introduction One of the signature targets of HPF’s search for nearby exoplanets is Barnard’s star, the second-closest star...

Posted on Feb 25, 2021 in Awards & Honors, News | 0 comments

Rebekah Dawson, Shaffer Career Development Professor in Science at Penn State, has been awarded the 2021 Helen B. Warner Prize for...

Statistical model may help unravel the mystery of apparently single-planet systems and aid exoplanet-seeking missions Data from the Kepler...

A recent study accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal proposes a new strategy for searching for biosignatures, chemical...

HPF has confirmed the planetary nature of a single-transiting Jupiter-sized planet (1.15 Jupiter radii) orbiting a nearby low mass M dwarf...

The Discovery A component of HPF’s on-sky time is used to follow up on potential planets discovered by NASA’s Transiting...