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Jason Wright

Earth from space

To boldly go: Penn State launches planetary science consortium

Wright awarded NASA grant to look for signatures of alien technology

A student in a hard hat standing at a railing overlooking a satellite dish

The Search for Life Beyond Our Planet

Jason Wright

Penn State's Jason Wright named recipient of SETI Institute's 2019 Drake Award

The Hobby-Eberly Telescope — one of the world’s largest optical telescopes and a premier planet-finding facility, conceived by Penn State astronomers

Penn State set to lead on new exoplanet science priorities

Artist's illustration of a thin ring of dust around a gowing orange star plus the star's two small orbiting planets

Alien megastructure not cause behind the 'most mysterious star in the universe'

Comparison of Keplar-13Ab

Astronomers discover 'sunscreen snow' falling on hot exoplanet

Jason Wright

Lecture to address hype vs. reality of alien megastructures

farside of the moon

55-year-old dark side of the moon mystery solved

Split the Difference

Nearby stars may aid in studies of Sun, search for Earth-like planets

Probing Question: What is a Near Earth?