Dec 6, 20182 minPlanet Hunters TESSWelcome to our new Planet Hunters TESS project! TESS is NASA’s new Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, which will spend the next two...
Oct 16, 20153 minComets or Aliens?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...
Dec 8, 20141 minKepler 2.0It’s up! The first science data from the new Kepler K2 mission is up on Planet Hunters just waiting to be looked at for new planets,...
Oct 30, 20142 minA New Paper and New Planet DiscoveriesToday we have a post from Joey Schmitt, a graduate student in the Astronomy department at Yale University, where he is working with the...
Mar 19, 20142 minThe Search for Supereccentric JupitersToday we have a guest post from Bekki Dawson. Bekki is a Miller postdoctoral fellow at the UC Berkeley Department of Astronomy. Her...
Dec 2, 20131 minClose Distance: Short Film About Hunting for PlanetsClose Distance is a short film created by Stefano Nurra & Florian Schwarz. It compares the lives of citizen scientist Caroyln Bol, who...
Oct 1, 20132 minPH2 b Paper AcceptedToday’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...
Mar 29, 20133 minPH1 Paper Offically Accepted for PublicationLast October we announced the discovery of PH1 – a four star planetary system hosting a circumbinary planet (PH1b). The transits were...
Mar 14, 20137 minMore about the Discovery of PH2-bThe project’s second confirmed planet, PH2-b (a Jupiter-sized gas giant planet orbiting a Sun-like star), was discovered by several...
Jan 9, 20139 minA Newly Confirmed Planet and 42 Additional Planet Candidates Part 2For our latest planet candidates paper, there were many volunteers who helped identify these potential transits on Talk. To thank all of...
Jan 7, 20133 minA Newly Confirmed Planet and 42 Additional Planet CandidatesArtistic rendition of a sunset view from the perspective of an imagined Earth-like moon orbiting the giant planet, PH2 b. Image Credit:...
Dec 19, 20123 minThe Planet CharacterizerToday we have a guest post from Seth Redfield. Seth is an Assistant Professor at Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT. Before Wesleyan,...
Nov 23, 20123 minTurning Planetary Systems on Their Heads (Gently)Today we have a guest post from Nate Kaib. Nate is a postdoctoral researcher at Northwestern University. In terms of research, his main...
Nov 6, 20123 minGrowing Planets Around Binary StarsToday we have a guest post from Stefano Meschiari. Stefano is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Texas at Austin. He works on...
Nov 2, 20122 minFlatter than a PancakeToday we have a guest post from Julia Fang. Julia is an astronomer and grad student at UCLA working with Jean-Luc Margot. She works on...
Oct 28, 20124 minThe Road to Characterizing PH1: Stellar Evolution ModelsToday we have a guest post from Willie Torres. Willie is an astronomer the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (Cambridge, MA),...
Oct 25, 20123 minThe Road to Characterizing PH1: Transits and Initial ModelingToday we have a blog post from Dirk Terrell. Dirk is an astrophysicist and the manager of the Astronomy and Computer Systems section at...
Oct 23, 20121 minMore PH1 ArtworkToday we have a blog post from Dirk Terrell. Dirk is an astrophysicist and the manager of the Astronomy and Computer Systems section at...
Oct 18, 20125 minThe Road to Characterizing PH1: The OverviewHaven Giguere/Yale It’s been an exciting week for exoplanets with the discovery of PH1 and the discovery of an Earth-mass planet around...
Oct 16, 20123 minThe Road to Characterizing PH1: Visual-band ImagingToday we have a guest post from Bill Keel. Bill is a member of the science team for Galaxy Zoo, and is more accustomed to dealing with...