The shape of a planet’s orbit is one of its fundamental properties, along with its size and distance from its host star. Earth and the...

I had the opportunity to review Hidden in the Heaven's by Jason Steffen for Nature Astronomy. Here's the link to the review, as...

Thrilled to have a review chapter on exoplanet occurrence from Doppler and Transit surveys published in the Springer/Nature Handbook of...

Happy to report that our group's first two papers on the automated scheduling of Doppler observations are out. Over a typical six-month...

Very happy to celebrate Luke Handley's graduation from UCLA with a B.S. in astrophysics! Luke joined the group in 2021 as a third-year...

So thrilled for our group at UCLA to celebrate our first conferral of a Ph.D. to Dr. Mason MacDougall. Mason joined my group in 2019 and...

In our solar system, there are no planets between the size of Earth and Neptune and none reside inside Mercury's orbit. Yet the Kepler...

Almost a year ago to the day, I was gearing up to teach my first course at UCLA. With only a few weeks before the start of the Spring...

Fall quarter begins this week, and I've been getting ready to teach another course over Zoom. It's one that I'm particularly excited...

A common saying in my field is “know thy star.” Often, when we discover a new planet our understanding of its properties is limited by...

After four wonderful years as a postdoc, my time at Caltech has come to a close. Thank you so much to everyone who made this time...

Over the last couple years, I've had the privilege to work with Samuel Yee, an exceptionally talented undergraduate. Last week, Sam...

Happy to announce that the latest paper in California-Kepler Survey has been published in the Astronomical Journal (Petigura et al....