NASA’s Newest Planet Tracker Finds a Sky-high Perch
A new instrument funded by NASA and the National Science Foundation called NEID (pronounced “NOO-id”; sounds like...
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NEID Spectrograph Sees First Light
The exoplanet-hunting instrument NEID, designed and built at Penn State, has passed an important milestone on the road to discovering...
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NEID Passes its NASA Pre-Ship Review
The NEID spectrometer passed its NASA pre-ship review. The outcome of this review, held September 17 and 18th at Penn State, was unanimous...
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How many Earth-size planets are around sun-like stars?
A new study provides the most accurate estimate of the frequency that planets that are similar to Earth in size and in distance from their...
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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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First Starlight for Habitable Zone Planet Finder
The Habitable zone Planet Finder (HPF) obtained its first observations of stars on 5 November. The figure displays a sample spectrum from...
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Extremely Precise Radial Velocities Workshop
Penn State hosted the Third Extremely Precise Radial Velocities workshop August 14-17, 2017. For more details, see the meeting...
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New planet found to be hotter than most stars
A newly discovered Jupiter-like world is so hot that even its nights are like the flame of a welding torch. The gas giant has a “year”...
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Upgraded Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dedicated
CEHW Professor Suvrath Mahadevan spoke on “Songs of Distant Earths” at the dedication for the freshly upgraded Hobby-Eberly...
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Four synchronized planets reveal clues to how planets form
The search for planets orbiting other stars in our galaxy has revealed an extraordinary family of planets whose orbits are so carefully...
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