by Eric Ford | Aug 29, 2025 | Life Beyond Earth & Astrobiology, Star & Planet Formation
CEHW researchers find a strikingly unusual chemical composition for a newly discovered planet-forming disk. Read more at Penn State News.
by Eric Ford | May 21, 2025 | Featured, News, Research, Star & Planet Formation
Astronomers at Penn State use data from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and theoretical modeling to study a distant, irradiated protoplanetary disk The fundamental building blocks for planet formation can exist even in environments with extreme ultraviolet...
by Eric Ford | Mar 17, 2025 | Featured, News, Research, Star & Planet Formation
Penn State Presidential and CEHW Postdoc Dr. Rachel Fernandes led a study to better understand the processes shapes the size and location of sub-Neptunes. Read the press release or the paper published in the Astronomical Journal.
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...
