by Eric Ford | Oct 26, 2025 | Exoplanet & Brown Dwarf Surveys, Featured, Life Beyond Earth & Astrobiology
The discovery of a possible “super-Earth” less than 20 light-years from our own planet is offering scientists new hope in the hunt for other worlds that could harbor life, according to an international team including researchers from Penn State. They dubbed the...
by Eric Ford | Aug 29, 2025 | Life Beyond Earth & Astrobiology, Star & Planet Formation
CEHW researchers find a strikingly unusual chemical composition for a newly discovered planet-forming disk. Read more at Penn State News.
by Eric Ford | May 21, 2025 | Featured, News, Research, Star & Planet Formation
Astronomers at Penn State use data from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and theoretical modeling to study a distant, irradiated protoplanetary disk The fundamental building blocks for planet formation can exist even in environments with extreme ultraviolet...
by Eric Ford | Mar 17, 2025 | Featured, News, Research, Star & Planet Formation
Penn State Presidential and CEHW Postdoc Dr. Rachel Fernandes led a study to better understand the processes shapes the size and location of sub-Neptunes. Read the press release or the paper published in the Astronomical Journal.
by Eric Ford | Feb 5, 2025 | Exoplanet & Brown Dwarf Surveys, Featured, News, Press Coverage
Using data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia mission, and the Habitable Zone Planet Finder and NEID Spectrometers developed at Penn State, scientists, including Penn State astronomers, have found a huge exoplanet and a brown dwarf. This is the first time a planet...
by Eric Ford | Jan 16, 2025 | Featured, News, Planetary Atmospheres & Interiors, Press Coverage, Research
CEHW Graduate student Nick Tusay led a JWST program to measure the mineralogical composition of an exoplanet, K2-22b, and presented his results at a press conference at the 2024 Winter AAS Meeting. Read more in stories from Science News and Live Science.
