Science News | Eberly College of Science

Star Is Discovered To Be a Close Neighbor of the Sun and the Coldest of Its Kind

Solved: Mysteries of a Nearby Planetary System's Dynamics

First Earth-Size Planet Is Discovered in Another Star's "Habitable Zone"

The Most Precise Measurement Yet of the Expanding Universe Is Achieved by Astronomers of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

WISE Satellite Finds No Evidence for Planet X in Survey of the Sky

Water is Detected in a Planet Outside Our Solar System

Asteroid Named for Two Penn State Students

A New, "Exceptionally Close" Exploding Star

Awards and Honors

Book on Statistics in Astronomy Wins PROSE Award for Cosmology and Astronomy

Size of the Universe Now Measured to Within One Percent

X-Ray Factory Revealed in the Center of Our Galaxy

Awards and Honors, Research

Neutrino Detector at the South Pole Gets Breakthrough of the Year Award