Many exoplanets have nearly circular orbits
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...
View ArticleEarth-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...
View ArticleMassive planet too big for its own sun pushes astronomers to rethink...
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...
View ArticleJWST identifies tiniest free-floating brown dwarf
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...
View ArticleCongrats to NSF Graduate Research Fellows
CEHW graduate students had an exceptional showing in this year’s National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship program. CEHW graduate student Christian Robles was awarded the National...
View ArticleUsing machine learning, modeling to detect Earth-like planets
The Institute for Computational & Data Sciences wrote a faculty profile on CEHW Professor Eric Ford.
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