Belatedly Habitable Planets
CEHW Graduate student Noah Tuchow and CEHW Professor Jason Wright introduce “Belatedly Habitable Planets”, a new type of...
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Where to search for signs of life
A recent study accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal proposes a new strategy for searching for biosignatures, chemical...
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Looking for aliens who might be looking for us
Data from a massive search for cosmic radio emission released Feb 14. by the Breakthrough Listen Initiative—the most comprehensive survey...
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Penn State’s Habitable Zone Planet Finder Enables Discovery of Planets Around Cool Stars
A new astronomical spectrograph built by a Penn State-led team of scientists provides the highest precision measurements to date of...
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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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Penn State set to lead on new exoplanet science priorities
A report by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine sets the stage for Penn State’s Center for Exoplanets and...
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Habitability of Exoplanet Water Worlds
“Water world” planets, those covered with a deep global ocean, could maintain surface conditions similar to that of the Earth for over a...
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Measuring Rocky Exoplanet Compositions with the James Webb Space Telescope
NASA NExSS and NPP postdoc Dr. Eva Bodman recently published a paper on “Inferring the Composition of Disintegrating Planet...
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A Flip-Flopping Climate Could Explain Mars’s Watery Past
A new hypothesis might reconcile two opposing theories that have tried to explain Mars’s mysterious history for more than 40 years....
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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...
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