‘EVE Online’ is crowdsourcing the search for real exoplanets

Stefanie Fogel — Tue, 07 Mar 2017 20:00:30 +0000

Excerpt: EVE Online players will help scientists look for other planets from the comfort of their computer desks later this year. The game’s developer, CCP Games, is teaming up with Massively Multiplayer Online Science (MMOS), the University of Reykjavik and the University of Geneva to crowdsource space exploration within EVE’s virtual universe. Players will hunt...

Crowdsourcing astronomers confirm existence of exoplanets

Kurt Pfitzer — Tue, 07 Feb 2017 20:00:04 +0000

Excerpt: Back in 2002, in his first year as a graduate student at Ohio State University, Joshua Pepper was sitting in his office one day when a professor walked by and asked what he was doing. Nothing much, Pepper said. Good, the professor replied. Then you’ll have time to work on my project. Pepper, an...

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‘EVE Online’ is crowdsourcing the search for real exoplanets

Crowdsourcing astronomers confirm existence of exoplanets