We are very, very happy to announce that the first Planet Hunters paper has been submitted to the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal...

With all the news coverage about “Tatooine” orbiting two stars, we were very excited to learn that in that most wretched hive of scum and...

Today’s breaking news is that the Kepler team have discovered a planet orbiting two suns, just like the fictional home planet of Luke...

We’re a few weeks away from Nantes where Chris and I will be attending the EPSC-DPS meeting to present results from Planet Hunters (and...

We’re not much more than six weeks away from the DPS conference in France where Meg and I (but mostly Meg) are presenting our (but...

Today’s post is part two completing the series by guest blogger Darin Ragozzine. Darin is a Caltech Ph.D. and currently a postdoc at the...

The main conference I go to as a planetary astronomer is the American Astronomical Society’s (AAS) Division of Planetary Sciences (DPS)...

Today’s post is part one of a two part series by guest blogger by Darin Ragozzine. He’ll be talking about multi-planet transiting...

Just a quick note to say that the Planet Hunters team have submitted the first scientific paper to come from the project. It’s been sent...

Last’s night live chat on UStream was great fun. The video is now available on Vimeo and you should be able to see it below: We got...

Today’s blog post is brought to you by zookeeper extraordinaire Chris Lintott. Last week Meg visited me in Chicago for two days of number...

Many of the Planet Hunters team were at the American Astronomical Society’s 218th meeting in Boston earlier this week. The team...