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Massive planet too big for its own sun pushes astronomers to rethink exoplanet 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...
Read MoreEarth-like planets could form even in the harshest environments
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....
Read MoreMany exoplanets have nearly circular orbits
New analysis of observational data from NASA’s Kepler space telescope catalogs...
Read MoreAndrea Lin awarded Downsbrough Graduate Fellowship
Each year, the Downsbrough Graduate Fellowship recognizes the accomplishments...
Read MoreJiayin Dong honored with 2022 Penn State Alumni Dissertation Award
Graduate student Jiayin Dong is a 2022 recipient of the Alumni Association...
Read MoreNearby star could help explain why our sun didn’t have sunspots for 70 years
CEHW undergrad alumna Anna Baum and Prof. Jason Wright identified a nearby...
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