Ever since a mechanical failure caused the end of the original Kepler mission in 2013, the Kepler spacecraft has been conducting a survey...

Let’s deal with the big question first. Has Planet Hunters discovered aliens? The answer is no. But that doesn’t mean that all of the...

Today we have a  post from Joey Schmitt, a graduate student in the Astronomy department at Yale University, where he is  working with the...

Today we have a  post from Joey Schmitt, a graduate student in the Astronomy department at Yale University, where he is  working with the...

Today’s post is from Ji Wang. Ji is a post-doctoral associate working with Planet Hunters at Yale University. He obtained his PhD at the...

This post is by Tabby Boyajian, one of the Planet Hunters science team at Yale As you all know, planethunter volunteers use archive data...

Last October we announced the discovery of PH1 – a four star planetary system hosting a circumbinary planet (PH1b). The transits were...

Just a quick note to say that I’ve resubmitted the PH1 paper back to the Astrophysical Journal last week. Many thanks to my co-authors...

The project’s second confirmed planet, PH2-b (a Jupiter-sized gas giant planet orbiting a Sun-like star), was discovered by several...

I just wanted to give you all a quick update on the PH1 paper.  We submitted the paper in October to a scientific journal, Astrophysical...

For our latest planet candidates paper, there were many volunteers who helped identify these potential transits on Talk. To thank all of...

Artistic rendition of a sunset view from the perspective of an imagined Earth-like moon orbiting the giant planet, PH2 b. Image Credit:...

Image Credit: Steve Harris (swh) from Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/steveharris/5255090489/ Happy Holidays and Merry Northern...

It’s been two years since everyone embarked on the Planet Hunters adventure. To celebrate we’ve created another anniversary poster,...

With the start of December, it’s that time of year again. The Zooniverse Advent Calendar is back. Each day this month, a door opens and...

We had submitted the PH1 paper to the Astrophysical Journal about a month ago and released the submitted draft on the public arXiv.org...

Today we have a guest post from Willie Torres. Willie is an astronomer the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for  Astrophysics (Cambridge, MA),...

Image credit: Haven Giguere/Yale Today we’re pleased to announce the discovery of the first confirmed planet discovered by Planet...

You might remember that I’ve been working on a systematic search of the Q1 light curves to examine the frequencies of large planets (> 2...

When I posted with news of our second paper’s submission last week I mentioned that the new paper from the Kepler team included a section...