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...
May 9, 20146 minThe Role of Planetary Migration in the Evolution of the Solar SystemIn the past two decades, exoplanet hunters have discovered almost 1800 planets beyond the Solar System, and there is more than twice that...
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...
Jan 14, 20144 minWhat Do We Really Understand About Planetary Formation?It’s fair to say that there are a lot of gaps to fill in our knowledge of exoplanetary bodies, and 2013 proved to be a good year for...
Nov 30, 20134 minComet ISON and the Best Studied Planetary SystemThis Thursday, the Solar System put on a celestial performance, and we had a front row seat to the spectacle. Long period Comet ISON made...
Nov 4, 20132 minExploring the Tiny Planetary System of Kepler-90We recently posted news of a Planet Hunters planet discovered as part of a seven-planet system. Dubbed Kepler-90 this system is a...
Oct 15, 20131 minSpotting RR Lyrae StarsRR Lyrae stars are a special type of variable star that changes in brightness due to radial pulsations that increase and decrease the...
Aug 17, 20132 minA mysterious object no moreThis post is by Tabby Boyajian, one of the Planet Hunters science team at Yale As you all know, planethunter volunteers use archive data...
May 2, 20134 minA Planet Hunters Review of the Kepler Transit Candidate ListThe Kepler team uses automated routines, specifically the Transiting Planet Search (TPS) algorithm, to search for transit signals in 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,...
Dec 16, 20121 minHappy 2nd AnniversaryIt’s been two years since everyone embarked on the Planet Hunters adventure. To celebrate we’ve created another anniversary poster,...
Dec 12, 20121 minLive Chat at 3pm GMT TodayLater today (3PM GMT / 9am CST) we’ll be holding a Google+ Hangout on Air to talk about Planet Hunters science and news. The video feed...
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),...