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Planet Hunters TESS
Welcome to our new Planet Hunters TESS project! TESS is NASA’s new Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, which will spend the next two...
Dec 6, 20182 min read
Hot Friends of Hot Jupiters: The WASP-47 system
Ever since a mechanical failure caused the end of the original Kepler mission in 2013, the Kepler spacecraft has been conducting a survey...
Nov 4, 20153 min read
Comets 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...
Oct 16, 20153 min read
Kepler 2.0
It’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,...
Dec 8, 20141 min read


The Role of Planetary Migration in the Evolution of the Solar System
In the past two decades, exoplanet hunters have discovered almost 1800 planets beyond the Solar System, and there is more than twice that...
May 9, 20146 min read


Quiet Stars (examples)
Thanks very much for your help with this project. At last count, roughly 50,000 light curves had been sorted at planethunters.org. Many...
Dec 25, 20102 min read


Planet Hunters Introduction
Hi, I’m Meg Schwamb a postdoctoral fellow at Yale University and member of the Planet Hunters Team. Welcome to Planet Hunters! We’ve been...
Dec 16, 20103 min read
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