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Combination of cosmic processes shapes the size and location of sub-Neptunes

Posted on Mar 17, 2025 in Featured, News, Research, Star & Planet Formation | 0 comments

Penn State Presidential and CEHW Postdoc Dr. Rachel Fernandes led a study to better understand the processes shapes the size and location...

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New planet in Kepler-51 system discovered using James Webb Space Telescope

Posted on Dec 3, 2024 in Featured, Orbital Dynamics, Planetary Atmospheres & Interiors, Press Coverage, Star & Planet Formation | 0 comments

The unusual system of three ‘super puff’ planets has at least one more planet, revealed by its gravitational tug on other...

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JWST identifies tiniest free-floating brown dwarf

Posted on Dec 13, 2023 in Exoplanet & Brown Dwarf Surveys, News, Press Coverage, Publications, Research, Star & Planet Formation | 0 comments

CEHW Professor Kevin Luhman led a study identifying the new record-holder for the smallest object that forms like a star: a tiny,...

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Massive planet too big for its own sun pushes astronomers to rethink exoplanet formation

Posted on Nov 30, 2023 in Exoplanet & Brown Dwarf Surveys, Featured, Planet-forming & Debris Disks, Press Coverage, Research, Star & Planet Formation | 0 comments

Congrats to former CEHW graduate student, Dr. Gudmundur Stefansson, and the rest of the team on their recent paper in Science that reports...

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Earth-like planets could form even in the harshest environments

Posted on Nov 30, 2023 in Featured, Planet-forming & Debris Disks, Press Coverage, Research, Star & Planet Formation | 0 comments

CEHW Professor Eric Feigelson is a member of the XUE (eXtreme UV environments) collaboration that found potentially planets with water...

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Newly discovered gas giant moving closer to its star

Posted on Oct 13, 2021 in Exoplanet & Brown Dwarf Surveys, Featured, Orbital Dynamics, Star & Planet Formation | 0 comments

A newly discovered gas giant planet with an elliptical, comet-like orbit is closing in on its host star, according to new research by a...

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Rapid Formation of Super-Earths Around Low-Mass Stars

Posted on Mar 9, 2021 in Planet-forming & Debris Disks, Publications, Research, Star & Planet Formation | 0 comments

Simulating the formation of super-Earths around M dwarfs A recent study accepted for publication in the Monthly Notices of the Royal...

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CEHW astronomers develop model for the distribution of inner planetary systems

Posted on Dec 1, 2020 in Exoplanet & Brown Dwarf Surveys, Featured, News, Publications, Star & Planet Formation, Statistical Methodology & Data Analysis | 0 comments

Statistical model may help unravel the mystery of apparently single-planet systems and aid exoplanet-seeking missions Data from the Kepler...

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Penn State’s Habitable Zone Planet Finder Enables Discovery of Planets Around Cool Stars

Posted on Mar 8, 2019 in Instrumentation, Life Beyond Earth & Astrobiology, News, Publications, Star & Planet Formation | 0 comments

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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Habitability of Exoplanet Water Worlds

Posted on Aug 31, 2018 in Life Beyond Earth & Astrobiology, News, Planetary Atmospheres & Interiors, Research, Star & Planet Formation | 0 comments

“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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