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Pennsylvania State University Press Releases

Earth-sized planets in habitable zones are more common than previously though
(Tuesday, March 12, 2013)
Determining Whether Extrasolar Planets Lie in the Habitable Zone
(Thursday, January 31, 2013)
A New Year's Gift from NASA & Penn State
(Thursday, January 3, 2013)
Antarctic ice sheet quakes shed light on ice movement and earthquakes
(Friday, August 24, 2012)
First Evidence Discovered of Planet's Destruction by Its Star
(Tuesday, August 21, 2012)
Nearby Star Cluster Useful in Studies of Sun & Earth-like Planets
(Friday, June 22, 2012)
Record-breaking radio waves from ultra-cool star
(Thursday, May 3, 2012)
Finding ET may require giant robotic leap
(Wednesday, April 18, 2012)
Hardy bacteria help make case for life in the extreme
(Monday, January 23, 2012)
Nonterrestrial Artifacts Are Hard to Pin Down
(Monday, November 7, 2011)
Photo: Extrasolar Planet-Sized Object As Cool As The Earth
(Wednesday, October 19, 2011)
The atomic clock with the world's best long-term accuracy is revealed after evaluation
(Monday, August 29, 2011)
Penn State Tiny shelled creatures shed light on extinction and recovery 65 million years ago
(Monday, March 1, 2010)
Brown dwarf pair mystifies astronomers
(Tuesday, December 22, 2009)
Major Advance Made In Understanding The Birth and Early Evolution of the Universe
(Thursday, August 20, 2009)
Nickel isotope may be methane producing microbe biomarker
(Sunday, August 2, 2009)
Methane-eating microbes can use iron and manganese oxides to 'breathe'
(Thursday, July 9, 2009)
New initiative traces the beginning of species' life on Earth
(Thursday, June 11, 2009)
First Results from Penn's Balloon-Borne Telescope BLAST: Extragalactic Survey Reveals Half the Universe's Starlight
(Thursday, April 9, 2009)
Deep-sea Rocks Point to Early Oxygen on Earth
(Tuesday, March 24, 2009)
Scientists Discover New Planet Orbiting Dangerously Close to Giant Star
(Tuesday, November 18, 2008)
Microbes beneath sea floor genetically distinct
(Tuesday, July 22, 2008)
Heart of the Crab Pulsar Probed -- First Direct Look Into the Core of a Neutron Star
(Tuesday, June 3, 2008)
A survivor in Greenland: A novel bacterial species is found trapped in 120,000-year-old ice
(Tuesday, June 3, 2008)
Scientists enhance Mother Nature's carbon handling mechanism
(Thursday, November 8, 2007)
Volcanoes key to Earth's oxygen atmosphere
(Monday, September 3, 2007)
Possible closest neutron star to Earth found
(Monday, August 20, 2007)
Planet Orbiting a Giant Red Star Discovered with Hobby-Eberly Telescope
(Friday, August 3, 2007)
High-quality helium crystals show supersolid behavior
(Monday, February 19, 2007)
Astronomers Discover New Kind of Black-Hole Explosion
(Wednesday, December 20, 2006)
Twin Star Explosions Fascinate Astronomers
(Monday, November 20, 2006)
NOVA Features Penn State Space Scientists on 31 October
(Monday, October 30, 2006)
Scientists snap first images of brown dwarf in planetary system
(Tuesday, September 19, 2006)
Sulfur signature changes thoughts on atmospheric oxygen
(Wednesday, August 23, 2006)
Ammonia-loving archaea win landslide majority
(Thursday, August 17, 2006)
Professor testifies on NASA funding before U.S. Senate subcommittee
(Thursday, June 8, 2006)
Methane-belching bugs inspire a new theory of the origin of life on Earth
(Sunday, May 14, 2006)
Scientists piece together the most distant cosmic explosion
(Thursday, March 9, 2006)
Shining a light on deep-sea vents: Science meets policy
(Sunday, February 19, 2006)
Deep X-ray surveys reveal black hole population, glimpse at the universe
(Friday, February 17, 2006)
Frozen methane chunks not responsible for abrupt increases in atmospheric methane
(Sunday, February 12, 2006)
Swift Satellite Hailed as "Best of What's New" in Popular Science
(Wednesday, November 9, 2005)
Short Flash from Enormous Explosion Solves Cosmic Mystery
(Thursday, October 6, 2005)
Scientists Measure How Deep "Deep Impact" Was, With X-rays
(Friday, July 8, 2005)
NASA Swift Satellite Offers a Different View of the Great Comet Collision
(Tuesday, July 5, 2005)
New Material Could Improve Fabrication of Nanoscale Components
(Friday, June 24, 2005)
The View Is Better from Up There - Penn-Led Team to Look to Distant Galaxies with Balloon-Borne Telescope
(Monday, June 13, 2005)
ARL leads NASA effort to develop smarter machines for space missions
(Friday, May 20, 2005)
Swift Mission Nabs Its First Distance Measurement to Star Explosion
(Tuesday, April 5, 2005)
Black holes influence knowledge of the universe
(Thursday, March 10, 2005)
Penn astrophysicist outlines a multi-pronged approach in the hunt for dark energy
(Monday, February 21, 2005)
Global warming led to atmospheric hydrogen sulfide and Permian extinction
(Monday, February 21, 2005)
Improving computer-supported work through scenario-based evaluation
(Monday, February 7, 2005)
Scientists Announce Smallest Extrasolar Planet Yet Discovered and Find Outer Limits of the Pulsar Planetary System
(Monday, February 7, 2005)
Swift Sees Pinwheel Galaxy, Satellite Fully Operational
(Tuesday, February 1, 2005)
First Search in Stellar Graveyard Yields Two Possible Planets
(Thursday, January 13, 2005)
Spying on Black-Hole Eating Habits with LISA
(Thursday, January 13, 2005)
Astronomers Discover Cold, Warm and Hot Gas Around a Young Brown Dwarf
(Monday, January 10, 2005)
Swift X-ray Telescope Sees Its First Light and Captures Its First Gamma-Ray-Burst Afterglow
(Wednesday, January 5, 2005)
New Hydrothermal Vents Discovered as "South Pacific Odyssey" Research Begins
(Thursday, September 23, 2004)
Thick marine beds of siderite suggest early high carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere
(Wednesday, May 26, 2004)
Making Black Holes Go 'Round on the Computer
(Monday, May 24, 2004)
Hobby-Eberly Telescope Witnesses Vaporizing of a Cometlike Body by a Very Young Hot Star
(Saturday, April 17, 2004)
Infant Galaxies Discovered in Nearby Galaxy Group
(Sunday, January 11, 2004)
New Penn State Computer Cluster Enables Researchers to Probe the Universe
(Sunday, December 14, 2003)
Hydrogen sulfide, not carbon dioxide, may have caused largest mass extinction
(Monday, November 3, 2003)
Planetary Tilt Not A Spoiler For Habitation
(Monday, August 25, 2003)
Major Flares Are Predictable on Far-Away Stars, Analysis of Radio Observations Reveals
(Friday, August 22, 2003)
Doomed Matter Near Black Hole Gets Second Lease on Life
(Tuesday, March 25, 2003)
Short and long gamma-ray bursts different to the core
(Thursday, February 20, 2003)
Early Mars: Warm enough to melt water?
(Friday, February 14, 2003)
Three of the Most Distant Quasars Found at Edge of the Universe
(Thursday, January 16, 2003)
Dinosaurs Experienced Climate Changes Before K-T Collision
(Tuesday, January 14, 2003)
Team Led by Penn State Astronomer Records Spectra of Gamma- Ray Burst
(Sunday, December 15, 2002)
Methane-based greenhouse and anti-greenhouse events led to stable archean climate
(Friday, December 6, 2002)
Scientists Visualize Waves in Space Caused by Black-Hole Mergers
(Wednesday, July 24, 2002)
Three Faint Companions of Bright Stars Discovered with New Infrared Camera Developed at Penn State
(Wednesday, June 19, 2002)
Discovery of Three Faint Companions of Bright Stars Brings Historic Mount Wilson Telescope to Cutting Edge of Astronomy
(Wednesday, June 12, 2002)
Wolszczan Featured on Millennium Stamp Set with Pope John Paul II, Lech Walesa, and Nicolaus Copernicus
(Monday, February 18, 2002)
Planets of the Phoenix: Astronomers Predict Rebirth of Planetary Systems in the Embers of Dead Stars
(Monday, January 7, 2002)
Fractal models of blue jets, blue starters show similarity, differences to red sprites
(Tuesday, December 11, 2001)
Mid-Ocean Ridge Program, RIDGE 2000, Moves Inland
(Monday, November 19, 2001)
In Powerful Gamma-Ray Bursts, Neutrinos May Fly Out First, Scientists Say
(Monday, November 5, 2001)
Young Stars in Orion May Solve Mystery of Our Solar System
(Thursday, September 6, 2001)
First Land Plants and Fungi Changed Earth's Climate, Paving the Way for Explosive Evolution of Land Animals, New Gene Study Suggests
(Thursday, August 9, 2001)
Marine methane consumed by consortia of bacteria
(Thursday, July 19, 2001)
Modeling creates clearer picture of pre-oxygen Archean atmosphere
(Tuesday, June 26, 2001)
Research reveals potential of single molecules to function as electronic switches
(Friday, June 22, 2001)
Tropical glaciers formed while earth was giant snowball
(Tuesday, May 29, 2001)
Special Astrobiology Guide Available To High School Educators
(Friday, March 9, 2001)
Enhanced Exercise Harness To Be Tested on NASA's KC135
(Thursday, February 1, 2001)
Astronomers gain best glimpse yet of what our universe is made of -- and not much of it is matter as we know it
(Wednesday, January 31, 2001)
Scientists Discover Supernova May Control Activity in the Center of Our Galaxy
(Wednesday, January 10, 2001)
Simultaneous stellar explosions create swiss-cheese structure in distant galaxy
(Monday, January 8, 2001)
Ancient South African soils point to early terrestrial life
(Wednesday, November 29, 2000)
Deep mantle volcanic plumes cause of atmospheric oxygenation
(Wednesday, November 15, 2000)
X-ray snapshots capture the first cries of baby stars
(Thursday, November 9, 2000)
Microquasar wind said found by Chandra in X-rays
(Wednesday, November 8, 2000)
Flickering quasar helps Chandra measure the expansion rate of the universe
(Monday, November 6, 2000)
Earth's Oceans Destined to Leave in Billion Years
(Monday, February 21, 2000)
One Theory Solves Two Ancient Climate Paradoxes
(Tuesday, December 14, 1999)
Scientists Discover Methane Ice Worms On Gulf Of Mexico Sea Floor
(Tuesday, July 29, 1997)