Today we have a blog post from Dirk Terrell. Dirk is an astrophysicist and the manager of the Astronomy and Computer Systems section at...

Haven Giguere/Yale It’s been an exciting week for exoplanets with the discovery of PH1 and the discovery of an Earth-mass planet around...

Today 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...

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

Today we have a guest post by Planet Hunters Robert Gagliano and Kian Jek, the discoverers of PH1, our first confirmed planet and first...

As I write this, I’m sitting on a train from London in the middle of the English countryside bound for Oxford. I’ll be spending the next...

Today we have a guest post by Tom Barclay, Tom is a member of the Kepler team and also a collaborator and co-author on our second Planet...

In June 2012 people all over the world will watch the planet Venus transit across the Sun. Planet Hunters is all about spotting planets...

Today we have a guest post by Jules, fellow Planet Hunter and zooite who attended the ZooCon1. Jules is a lead moderator and blogger for...

HR8799 direct imaging planet detections Credit: Marois et al (2010) Today we have a guest blog from Sasha Hinkley talking about a...

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...

Way back in January I blogged about our announcement of two new candidates, confidently predicting that the paper would be out in the...

I’m close to submitting my paper looking for short period planets in the Quarter 1 Kepler light curves and comparing to the known Kepler...

We at Planet Hunters are thrilled to be part of this year’s BBC Stargazing Live – three nights of astronomy programing featured on the...

We’re delighted to announce that you’ve done it again, with two new planet hunters discoveries being announced at the 219th meeting of...

Now that we’re in the thick of Quarter 3, there’s new data glitches popping up in the data unique to Quarter 3. Below are some examples...

Przeglądając dane z trzeciego kwartału (Q3), można natknąć się na kilka nowych, niespotykanych wcześniej problemów z danymi. Poniżej...

This is a cross post from the Galaxy Zoo blog – since it’s about the astro literature, it applies directly to exo-planet research. So you...

Today’s blog post come’s from guest blogger Mahamitra Jagadheshkumar, a summer student who worked on Planet Hunters and helped us sort...

Today’s blog post come’s from guest blogger Justin Crepp, co-author on our first Planet Hunters paper. Justin is an expert in adaptive...