Dear Planet Hunters: Dr. Natalie Batalha, Deputy Science Team Lead for the Kepler Mission, asked us to post the following message:...

The Kepler team recently announced the detection of five stars, each with multiple transiting planets (Steffen et al, 2010). The left...

The reasons for changes in the brightness of a star can be divided into two categories: (1) orbiting companions or (2) stellar...

It’s Christmas Eve and I’m starting a five-night observing run at the Keck Telescope using a high-resolution spectrograph (HIRES) to...

Figure 1. Eclipsing Binary (detached, Algol type) I’m Debra Fischer, a Professor of Astronomy at Yale University. Many of you have...

Hi I’m Matt, a graduate student at Yale University and a member of the Science Team. We’re really impressed with the turnout so far on...

Greetings from Kevin Schawinski and Meg Schwamb, postdoctoral fellows at Yale and members of the Science Team. Wow, we’ve been blown away...

Hi, I’m Meg Schwamb a postdoctoral fellow at Yale University and member of the Planet Hunters Team. Welcome to Planet Hunters! We’ve been...