A very stealthy alias: the impostor planet of Barnard’s star
Introduction One of the signature targets of HPF’s search for nearby exoplanets is Barnard’s star, the second-closest star...
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NASA’s Newest Planet Tracker Finds a Sky-high Perch
A new instrument funded by NASA and the National Science Foundation called NEID (pronounced “NOO-id”; sounds like...
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NEID Spectrograph Sees First Light
The exoplanet-hunting instrument NEID, designed and built at Penn State, has passed an important milestone on the road to discovering...
Read MoreIntelligent Ways to Search for Extraterrestrials
A story in the New Yorker highlights CHEW Professor Jason Wright’s contributions to the Search for...
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CEHW Professor Wright honored with 2019 Drake Award
CEHW Professor Jason Wright has been named the recipient of the 2019 Drake Award by the SETI Institute. Read full story at Penn State...
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Penn State Extraterrestrial Intelligence (PSETI) Center
A new Penn State Extraterrestrial Intelligence (PSETI) Center that will compliment the Center for Exoplanets & Habitable Worlds was...
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“The Next Step In The Search For Aliens Is A Huge Telescope And A Ton Of Math” – FiveThirtyEight.com
FiveThirtyEight.com recently reported on two broad approaches to learning about potentially habitable exoplanets and perhaps even signs of...
Read MorePrior Indigenous Technological Species
Gizmodo reports on CEHW Professor Jason Wright’s recent pondering on whether scientists could do a better job of searching for...
Read MoreIn search of Earth analogues: Detecting exoplanets amid stellar noise
The April 2017 issue of Significance has a popular-level story about the challenges of detecting low-mass exoplanets. The article was...
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Shredding Exoplanets, And The Mysteries They May Unravel
CEHW Prof. Jason Wright’s research was featured in ManyWorlds, a blog sponsored by NASA’s Nexus for Exoplanet Systems Science....
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