CEHW faculty’s JWST Image on postage stamp
Read the story about how CEHW Professor Kevin Luhman took the picture on a recent postage...
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New theory proposes that humans — and analogous life beyond Earth — may represent the probable outcome of biological and planetary...
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Wobbling stars reveal hidden companions in Gaia data
Using data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia mission, and the Habitable Zone Planet Finder and NEID Spectrometers developed at Penn...
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New planet in Kepler-51 system discovered using James Webb Space Telescope
The unusual system of three ‘super puff’ planets has at least one more planet, revealed by its gravitational tug on other...
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Using machine learning, modeling to detect Earth-like planets
The Institute for Computational & Data Sciences wrote a faculty profile on CEHW Professor Eric...
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JWST identifies tiniest free-floating brown dwarf
CEHW Professor Kevin Luhman led a study identifying the new record-holder for the smallest object that forms like a star: a tiny,...
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Massive planet too big for its own sun pushes astronomers to rethink exoplanet formation
Congrats to former CEHW graduate student, Dr. Gudmundur Stefansson, and the rest of the team on their recent paper in Science that reports...
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Earth-like planets could form even in the harshest environments
CEHW Professor Eric Feigelson is a member of the XUE (eXtreme UV environments) collaboration that found potentially planets with water...
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Many exoplanets have nearly circular orbits
New analysis of observational data from NASA’s Kepler space telescope catalogs planetary properties; informs climate of planets Most...
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A journey of exoplanet discovery begins as Penn State’s NEID spectrometer starts its scientific mission
Suvrath Mahadevan and Sam Sholtis The NEID spectrometer, a new tool for the discovery of planets outside of our solar system, has now...
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