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...

A new MAST High Level Science Product from K2 has been delivered that includes extracted lightcurves. Courtesy of Vanderburg & Johnson...

When someone tries to explain the concept of planet transits, you often see simulated graphics like the one below: Well James Gilbert...

Today we have a guest post by Lauren Kelly. Lauren is an Educator for STEM Student Experiences at the Adler Planetarium in Chicago, IL,...

There was a  great question about transits in response to my post about “What Factors Impact Transit Shape” so I thought I’d answer in a...

I’m rewriting the simulation code I use for making simulated  transits and injecting them into Kepler light curves  from a program...

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

As I write this blog post, the transit of Venus is ongoing, with Venus finishing  its slow march across the face of the Sun in less than...

I’ll start by introducing myself as I’m not involved in Planethunters, but Meg asked me if I could write an article for you here about...

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...

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...

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...

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...

I wanted to give you all a quick update of what the team has been doing in regards to the interesting possible multiple system Chris...

A question that comes up regularly on Talk is whether you should mark something as a potential transit. A lot of people are apprehensive...

I was talking to last week’s seminar speaker, and we were talking about Planet Hunters and some of the things that might be lurking in...

By  Charlie Sharzer. Charlie  is an undergraduate at Yale working on model fitting the PH planet candidates to estimate their radii and...