A star so fascinating…
Most of the time scientists labor in obscurity. But sometimes a science result captures the public’s imagination in a way...
Read More“Brave new world-hunters spot exoplanets on the cheap” – New Scientist
Prof. Jason Wright and colleagues discuss MINERVA and other upcoming searches for small planets. Read...
Read More“Planet hunters plot course for habitable worlds” – Nature
Prof. Suvrath Mahadevan is quoted in a Nature article about planning for a major NASA’s mission to study exoplanets. Suvrath will...
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Astrobite about MINERVA, the MINiature Exoplanet Radial Velocity Array
Read PSU Graduate Student Gudundur Stefansson’s Astrobite summary of the recent SPIE proceedings describing the MINERVA observatory....
Read MoreThe Year in Science: CEHW Highlights 2014
2014 has been a year filled with exciting and noteworthy research from the Center for Exoplanets and Habitable Worlds. We are delighted...
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“Looking to Mars to Help Understand Changing Climates” – NYT
CEHW member and Evan Pugh Professor Jim Kastings is cited in a New York Times article on how investigating the climate of Mars can...
Read More“War of the Worlds”
A Wired.com story chronicles the search for potentially habitable planets. As [CEHW postdoctoral fellow Dr. Paul] Robertson reviewed the...
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Could we detect signs of life on a massive super-Earth?
Read CEHW graduate student Natasha Batalha’s “astrobite”, a review of a recent paper on “Biosignature Gases in...
Read MorePlanet Hunting to Sky Surveys, Astronomy and Statistics Realign
Read Prof. Eric Feigelson and Prof. Jogesh Babu’s contribution to Space.com’s “Expert Voices: Op-Ed &...
Read More“The Search For Extraterrestrial Civilizations’ Waste Energy” in MIT Technology Review
The MIT Technology Review explains work on “The Ĝ Infrared Search for Extraterrestrial Civilizations with Large Energy Supplies. I....
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