by Eric Ford | Dec 3, 2024 | Featured, Orbital Dynamics, Planetary Atmospheres & Interiors, Press Coverage, Star & Planet Formation
The unusual system of three ‘super puff’ planets has at least one more planet, revealed by its gravitational tug on other planets An unusual planetary system with three known ultra-low density “super-puff” planets has at least one more planet, according to...
by Eric Ford | Dec 13, 2023 | Exoplanet & Brown Dwarf Surveys, News, Press Coverage, Publications, Research, Star & Planet Formation
CEHW Professor Kevin Luhman led a study identifying the new record-holder for the smallest object that forms like a star: a tiny, free-floating brown dwarf with only three to four times the mass of Jupiter. NASA Press Release Penn State Press Release Paper the...
by Eric Ford | Nov 30, 2023 | Exoplanet & Brown Dwarf Surveys, Featured, Planet-forming & Debris Disks, Press Coverage, Research, Star & Planet Formation
Congrats to former CEHW graduate student, Dr. Gudmundur Stefansson, and the rest of the team on their recent paper in Science that reports the discovery of a Neptune-mass exoplanet in close orbit around a very low-mass star using the Habitable Zone Planet Finder and...
by Eric Ford | Nov 30, 2023 | Featured, Planet-forming & Debris Disks, Press Coverage, Research, Star & Planet Formation
CEHW Professor Eric Feigelson is a member of the XUE (eXtreme UV environments) collaboration that found potentially planets with water could form even in the harshest known planet-forming environments using JWST. Earth-like planets, including planets with water, could...
by Eric Ford | Nov 2, 2023 | Exoplanet & Brown Dwarf Surveys, Orbital Dynamics, Press Coverage, Statistical Methodology & Data Analysis
New analysis of observational data from NASA’s Kepler space telescope catalogs planetary properties; informs climate of planets Most near-Earth-sized planets travel around their host stars on nearly circular orbits, and the more small planets orbiting close to a star,...
by Eric Ford | Mar 23, 2022 | Featured, Our Solar System, Star Properties
CEHW undergrad alumna Anna Baum and Prof. Jason Wright identified a nearby star whose sunspot cycles appear to have stopped. Read more in the Penn State press release.
