Penn State-IBM partnership accelerates search for elusive neutrinos
A flaring supermassive black hole 3.7 billion light-years from Earth in the constellation Orion is the suspected source of a super-high-energy subatomic particle -- a neutrino -- that has launched a new era of space research. Credit: Nate Follmer, Penn State

A partnership with technology leader IBM allows the Cowen group to scale up their research to detect more neutrinos.

Penn State Extraterrestrial Intelligence Center researcher Jason Wright awarded NASA grant to look for signatures of alien technology
Illustration of planets orbiting a star

A grant from NASA will support research by the Penn State Extraterrestrial Intelligence Center to look for signatures of alien technology.

Black hole or neutron star?
Artist's impression of mysterious astonomical object detected by LIGO
ICDS awards computational and data sciences seed grants to Eberly researchers
diagram for ICDS seed grants

Eight projects by Eberly researchers have been awarded seed grants from the Penn State Institute for Computational and Data Sciences.

Astronomy is better with better statistics
Left to right: Eric Ford, Eric Feigelson, Hyungsuk Tak, Jogesh Babu. Credit: Nate Follmer.
Data science opens doors
Danley Hsu
Eberly faculty support enthusiastic teachers
Teachers Keith Saroka, Valerie Knaver, and Lenny Barsody show a Sloan Digital Sky Survey plug plate. It is a surplus aluminum plate from the Apache Point Observatory that was used to help gather spectra from a specific set of astronomical objects.
Five Penn State researchers awarded grants by Kaufman Foundation
Shandera, Jeong, Hanna headshots

The Charles E. Kaufman Foundation has selected two projects led by Penn State researchers to receive New Initiatives grants.

New type of pulsating star discovered
tear-drop pulsar with companion star

A new type of pulsating star that oscillates largely over only one of its hemispheres has been discovered.

Sub-Neptune sized planet validated with the Habitable-zone Planet Finder
Hobby Eberly Telescope
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