"What makes a planet habitable?" is a free public lecture on February 17
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"The Birth of Habitable Planets" is a free public lecture on February 10
Rebekah Dawson
Is there life on other planets? Learn the latest research on February 3: "Choose Your Own Adventure: Planet Edition"
Sarah Ballard
"New Tools for Finding the Closest Earth-Like Planets" -- a free public lecture on January 27, 2018
Suvrath Mahadev
Three types of extreme-energy space particles may have unified origin
This image illustrates the "multi-messenger'' emission from a gigantic reservoir of cosmic rays that are accelerated by powerful jets from a supermassive black hole. Credit: Kanoko Horio
"How to Look for a Liveable Planet" is a free public lecture in a series that begins on January 20
John Johnson
How massive is supermassive? Astronomers measure more black holes, farther away
An artist's rendering of the inner regions of an active galaxy/quasar, with a supermassive black hole at the center surrounded by a disk of hot material falling in. Credit: Nahks Tr'Ehnl (www.nahks.com) and Catherine Grier (Penn State) and the SDSS collaboration
Alien Megastructure not the cause of dimming of the 'Most Mysterious Star in the Universe'
This illustration depicts an uneven ring of dust orbiting KIC 8462852, also known as Boyajian’s Star or Tabby's Star. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Two discoveries by international collaborations involving Penn State scientists make list of Physics World Top Ten Breakthroughs of 2017
Physics World Top 10 logo. Credit: Physics World.
Experiment Near South Pole Reveals How Earth Blocks High-Energy Particles Produced by Nuclear Reactions
This image shows a visual representation of one of the highest-energy neutrino detections superimposed on a view of the IceCube Lab near the South Pole. Credit: IceCube Collaboration
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