News
April 18, 2012 - Professor Debra Fischer was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, in recognition of her scientific contributions in astronomy. Dr. Fischer was one of six Yale faculty members elected to the 2012 Class of Fellows.
April 18, 2012 - On Wednesday, April 18, author and astrophysicist, Marc Kuchner, conducted a workshop at Yale on Marketing for Scientists. The workshop was based on Dr. Kuchner's book by the same title.
February 28, 2012 - Announcing a second Planet Hunters paper, Planet Hunters: New Kepler planet candidates from analysis of quarter 2, which presents new planet candidates identified by volunteers engaged in the Planet Hunters citizen science project.
January 19, 2012 - We are proud to announce that Dr. Christian Schwab was awarded a prestigious 2012 Sagan Postdoctoral Fellowship. The NASA Exoplanet Science Institute's Sagan Fellowships "support outstanding recent postdoctoral scientists to conduct independent research that is broadly related to the science goals of the NASA Exoplanet Exploration program. The primary goal of missions within this program is to discover and characterize planetary systems and Earth-like planets around nearby stars."
January 15, 2012 - The BBC News invites citizen scientists to explore PlanetHunters.org and join in the hunt for nearby planets that could support life.
See News Archive for past announcements.
About Us
Debra Fischer's group at Yale works on the discovery of planets orbiting nearby stars.
Our research projects include Doppler planet searches, and analysis of the properties of planet-hosting stars.
We also have an active instrumentation and software development program to investigate novel designs needed for achieving better Doppler precision.
