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Research from Joshua Pepper Explores How Other Planets Might Find Earth

New research from the professor of physics that asks which exoplanets could find Earth is featured in Astronomy.

Golden Ticket for NASA Research

Oliwia Krupinska ’20 finds no set requirements to obtain postdoctoral astrophysics fellowships funded by NASA

A Planet Hotter Than Most Stars

Newly found world has a ‘year’ only 1.5 days long—and may even have a tail like a comet.

‘Styrofoam’ Planet May Help Solve Mystery of Giant Planets

Newly discovered KELT-11b has an extremely low density and orbits near its host star.

Crowdsourcers help find distant planet

A Lehigh astronomer gathers observers from four continents to verify Kepler-1647 b.

The Search for Other Worlds

An 'extremely little telescope' produces big results in Joshua Pepper's search for extrasolar planets—and the possibility that some of them might actually resemble our own.