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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


Exploring the Tiny Planetary System of Kepler-90
We recently posted news of a Planet Hunters planet discovered as part of a seven-planet system. Dubbed Kepler-90 this system is a...
Nov 4, 20132 min read


A mysterious object no more
This post is by Tabby Boyajian, one of the Planet Hunters science team at Yale As you all know, planethunter volunteers use archive data...
Aug 17, 20132 min read


Assessing the Kepler Inventory of Short Period Planets
You might remember that I’ve been working on a systematic search of the Q1 light curves to examine the frequencies of large planets (> 2...
May 30, 20125 min read
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