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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NASA picks Penn State-led team to Advance Concept for a Precision Planet Hunting Instrument
On a rugged Arizona mountaintop, astronomers will soon switch on a new, state-of-the-art instrument to hunt for planets circling distant...
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The mass of the Mars-sized exoplanet, Kepler-138b
A First: Exoplanet smaller than Earth gets its size and mass measured A team of astronomers has measured the mass and size of the smallest...
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Search for Advanced Civilizations Beyond Earth Finds Nothing Obvious in 100,000 Galaxies
After searching 100,000 galaxies for signs of highly advanced extraterrestrial life, a team of scientists using observations from...
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Stellar Activity and Gliese 667C on the HPF Blog
Have a look at today’s update on the HPF blog discussing Paul Robertson and Suvrath Mahadevan’s new study on the stellar...
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Controversial Clues of Two ‘Goldilocks Planets’ That Might Support Life are Proven False
Read more in the Penn State press release. And listen to Paul Robertson on Big Picture Science from the SETI...
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A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall on the Dark Side of the Moon
“Arpita Roy, Steinn Sigurdsson, and I just finished a long project in lunar geology theory. It’s been a trip!” – Prof....
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Star Is Discovered To Be a Close Neighbor of the Sun and the Coldest of Its Kind
“It is very exciting to discover a new neighbor of our solar system that is so close,” said Kevin Luhman… Read more at...
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Solved: Mysteries of a Nearby Planetary System’s Dynamics
Mysteries of one of the most fascinating nearby planetary systems now have been solved… Read more at the PSU press release or...
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First Earth-Size Planet Is Discovered in Another Star’s “Habitable Zone”
A team of astronomers that includes Penn State scientists has discovered the first Earth-size planet orbiting a star in the...
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