January 20, 2017 – Is there anybody out there? The question of whether Earthlings are alone in the universe has puzzled everyone from biologists and physicists to philosophers and filmmakers. It’s also the driving force behind San Francisco State University astronomer Stephen Kane’s research into exoplanets — planets that exist outside Earth’s solar system. As […]
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Team led by SF State astronomer catalogs most likely ‘second-Earth’ candidates
Aug. 3, 2016 – Looking for another Earth? An international team of researchers has pinpointed which of the more than 4,000 exoplanets discovered by NASA’s Kepler mission are most likely to be similar to our rocky home. The research, detailed in an article to be published in the Astrophysical Journal, outlines 216 Kepler planets located […]