by Eric Ford | Dec 26, 2014 | Press Coverage
Read PSU Graduate Student Gudundur Stefansson’s Astrobite summary of the recent SPIE proceedings describing the MINERVA observatory. Penn State is a major partner in the MINERVA project, led by Professor Jason Wright’s group. MINERVA: MINiature Exoplanet...
by Paul M Robertson | Dec 20, 2014 | Awards & Honors, News, Press Coverage
2014 has been a year filled with exciting and noteworthy research from the Center for Exoplanets and Habitable Worlds. We are delighted to announce that two separate research projects led by CEHW members were selected to appear in Discover Magazine’s top 100...
by Eric Ford | Dec 8, 2014 | Press Coverage
CEHW member and Evan Pugh Professor Jim Kastings is cited in a New York Times article on how investigating the climate of Mars can contribute to understand Earth’s climate. Read the NYT story.
by Eric Ford | Nov 22, 2014 | Press Coverage
A Wired.com story chronicles the search for potentially habitable planets. As [CEHW postdoctoral fellow Dr. Paul] Robertson reviewed the data, planets started disappearing into the statistical noise. The first Earth-like exoplanet was now Gliese 667Cc. Paul and other...
by Eric Ford | Nov 20, 2014 | News, Press Coverage
Read CEHW graduate student Natasha Batalha’s “astrobite”, a review of a recent paper on “Biosignature Gases in H2-Dominated Atmospheres on Rocky Exoplanets”.
by Eric Ford | Oct 31, 2014 | News, Press Coverage
Read Prof. Eric Feigelson and Prof. Jogesh Babu’s contribution to Space.com’s “Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights” at Planet Hunting to Sky Surveys, Astronomy and Statistics Realign.
