Exoplanet science 2.0

Scharf, Caleb; Fischer, Debra; Meadows, Victoria

doi:10.1038/d41586-018-00108-3

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08 January 2018

Exoplanet science 2.0

The study of life on and off Earth needs unified funding and a coherent plan, say Caleb Scharf, Debra Fischer and Victoria Meadows.

Caleb Scharf⁰,
Debra Fischer¹ &
Victoria Meadows²

Caleb Scharf
1. Director of astrobiology at Columbia University, New York City, New York, USA.
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Debra Fischer
1. Professor of astronomy at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
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Victoria Meadows
1. Professor of astronomy and principal investigator at the Virtual Planet Laboratory, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA.
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It is more than two decades since we learnt that the Universe is awash with other worlds. Since 1992, more than 3,500 exoplanets have been discovered orbiting stars other than our Sun.

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Nature 553, 149-151 (2018)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-018-00108-3

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