Ever since a mechanical failure caused the end of the original Kepler mission in 2013, the Kepler spacecraft has been conducting a survey...

Let’s deal with the big question first. Has Planet Hunters discovered aliens? The answer is no. But that doesn’t mean that all of the...

A new MAST High Level Science Product from K2 has been delivered that includes extracted lightcurves. Courtesy of Vanderburg & Johnson...

It’s up! The first science data from the new Kepler K2 mission is up on Planet Hunters just waiting to be looked at for new planets,...

The light curves you see on Planet Hunters are not always the light of a single star. Kepler has very very precise but blurry vision. The...

On December 16, 2010, the Zooniverse launched Planet Hunters to enlist the public’s help to search for extrasolar planets (exoplanets) in...

Today we have a guest post from Scott Fleming. Scott is a scientist at the Space Telescope Science Institute, located in Baltimore, MD,...

K2 mountain, the 2nd highest peak in the world Image credit: Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:K2_2006b.jpg) In May, Kepler...

Now that Kepler is officially 2-wheeled,  NASA and the Kepler team are looking at what Kepler could be re-purposed to do. Except for...

Today brought some incredibly sad news to planet hunters everywhere. The Kepler satellite, which has provided all the data which has fed...

Recently NASA selected the next set of missions for the Explorer Program to be launched in 2017 from four proposed  mission concepts. The...

Image Credit: NASA/Kepler Team Today marks the successful end of Kepler‘s primary mission. Kepler has revolutionized the field of...

The NASA Senior Review panel decisions are in. The panel assessed Kepler and several other astrophysics missions including Hubble Space...

We at Planet Hunters are thrilled to be part of this year’s BBC Stargazing Live  – three nights of astronomy programing featured on the...

Happy New Year and Happy 2012 Everyone – We’ve got lots in store for 2012. I wanted to give you a quick update on what the team’s been up...

Greetings from the Cleaveland airport, I’m on my way back to Yale from California. This past week I’ve been attending y the First Kepler...

Dear Planet Hunters: I’m writing to congratulate you on your wonderful discovery of some unique new planet candidates.  I began designing...

Today’s breaking news is that the Kepler team have discovered a planet orbiting two suns, just like the fictional home planet of Luke...

The Kepler team announced yesterday the release of Q3 data has moved up from June 2012 to September 23rd. Q3 is about 90 days of...

I wanted to give a brief update on the gap question and talk a little more about what causes those gaps in the data. You might have...