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Posted on Jul 10, 2018 in Awards & Honors | 0 comments

Rebekah Dawson, assistant professor of astronomy and astrophysics at Penn State, has been awarded the Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty...

Posted on Feb 16, 2018 in Awards & Honors, News | 0 comments

Congratulations to CEHW Professor Rebekah Dawson who was recently honored with an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, a prestigious award...

Posted on Jan 13, 2018 in Events | 0 comments

“Is There Life on Other Planets” is the question we will explore during the 2018 Penn State Lectures on the Frontiers of...

Posted on Jan 3, 2018 in News | 0 comments

A team of more than 200 researchers, including Penn State Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Assistant Professor Jason Wright and...

The Habitable zone Planet Finder (HPF) obtained its first observations of stars on 5 November. The figure displays a sample spectrum from...

Astronomers at Penn State have used the Hubble Space Telescope to find a blistering-hot giant planet outside our solar system where the...

Posted on Sep 6, 2017 in Announcements, News | 0 comments

Please join us in welcoming our new CEHW postdocs, Dr. Sarah Morrison & Dr. Ari Silburt. Dr. Sarah Morrison joins the department as a...

Posted on Jul 21, 2017 in Press Coverage | 0 comments

FiveThirtyEight.com recently reported on two broad approaches to learning about potentially habitable exoplanets and perhaps even signs of...

Posted on Jun 22, 2017 in News | 0 comments

This week, over 270 researchers gathered at NASA Ames Research Center for the final Kepler & K2 Science Conference to discuss the...

Posted on Jun 22, 2017 in Announcements | 0 comments

Congratulations to the four CEHW graduate students who successfully defended their Ph.D. defenses. Natasha Batalha Title: “A Synergistic...