by Eric Ford | Jan 12, 2020 | Exoplanet & Brown Dwarf Surveys, Instrumentation, Press Coverage
A new instrument funded by NASA and the National Science Foundation called NEID (pronounced “NOO-id”; sounds like “fluid”) will help scientists measure the masses of planets outside our solar system – exoplanets – by observing the...
by Eric Ford | Jan 10, 2020 | Exoplanet & Brown Dwarf Surveys, Featured, Instrumentation, News, Press Coverage
The exoplanet-hunting instrument NEID, designed and built at Penn State, has passed an important milestone on the road to discovering Earth-mass planets beyond our solar system. The new instrument, an extreme precision radial velocity spectrometer, has been installed...
by Eric Ford | Oct 3, 2019 | Press Coverage
A story in the New Yorker highlights CHEW Professor Jason Wright’s contributions to the Search for Extraterrestrials.
by Eric Ford | Mar 27, 2019 | Awards & Honors, Press Coverage
CEHW Professor Jason Wright has been named the recipient of the 2019 Drake Award by the SETI Institute. Read full story at Penn State News.
by Eric Ford | Mar 1, 2019 | Announcements, Life Beyond Earth & Astrobiology, Press Coverage
A new Penn State Extraterrestrial Intelligence (PSETI) Center that will compliment the Center for Exoplanets & Habitable Worlds was profiled in Science. Penn State recently announced two alumni gifts to fund the PSETI Center. These gifts will establish the John...
by Eric Ford | Jul 21, 2017 | Press Coverage
FiveThirtyEight.com recently reported on two broad approaches to learning about potentially habitable exoplanets and perhaps even signs of life in an article titled, “The Next Step In The Search For Aliens Is A Huge Telescope And A Ton Of Math”.
