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James F. Kasting
NASA Discipline ExobiologyNon-NASA CenterEarth, PlanetNASA Program ExobiologyAtmosphereClimateastro-ph.EPNASA Discipline Number 52-30PlanetsEvolution, Planetary
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Habitable Zones Around Main-Sequence Stars: New Estimates
with Ravi kumar Kopparapu, Ramses Ramirez, Vincent Eymet, Tyler D. Robinson +5
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Preprints & journals
103 papers in the corpus · 1984–2025Atmospheric oxygen and methane on the early Earth.40770988 · Kasting, James F, Ji, Aoshuang2025 · 2 citationsPhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences. 2025;380(1931):20240093
Evolution of the iodine cycle and the late stabilization of the Earth's ozone layer.39761407 · Liu, Jingjun, Hardisty, Dalton S, Kasting, James F et al.2025 · 13 citationsProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 2025;122(2):e2412898121
Comparison between ozone column depths and methane lifetimes computed by one- and three-dimensional models at different atmospheric O2 levels.37153363 · Ji, A, Kasting, J F, Cooke, G J et al.2024 · 13 citationsRoyal Society open science. 2023;10(5):230056
Hot Earth or Young Venus? A nearby transiting rocky planet mystery2209.03105v2 · L. Kaltenegger, R. C. Payne, Z. Lin et al.2022 · 5 citationsarXiv
Triple oxygen isotope constraints on atmospheric O2 and biological productivity during the mid-Proterozoic.34911756 · Liu, Peng, Liu, Jingjun, Ji, Aoshuang et al.2022 · 24 citationsProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 2021;118(51)
Venus might never have been habitable.34645993 · Kasting, James F, Harman, Chester E2021 · 5 citationsNature. 2021;598(7880):259-260
Warming Early Mars with Climate Cycling: The Effect of CO2-H2 Collision-induced Absorption2004.09076v2 · Benjamin P.C. Hayworth, Ravi Kumar Kopparapu, Jacob Haqq-Misra et al.2020 · 28 citationsIcarus 345 (2020) 113770
Oxidized micrometeorites suggest either high pCO2 or low pN2 during the Neoarchean.31907311 · Payne, Rebecca C, Brownlee, Don, Kasting, James F2020 · 29 citationsProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 2020;117(3):1360-1366
Nitrous oxide from chemodenitrification: A possible missing link in the Proterozoic greenhouse and the evolution of aerobic respiration.30133143 · Stanton, Chloe L, Reinhard, Christopher T, Kasting, James F et al.2019 · 56 citationsGeobiology. 2018;16(6):597-609
Exploring Other Worlds: Science Questions for Future Direct Imaging Missions (EXOPAG SAG15 Report)1708.02821v1 · Daniel Apai, Nicolas Cowan, Ravikumar Kopparapu et al.2017 · 6 citationsarXiv
Climate Cycling on Early Mars Caused by the Carbonate-Silicate Cycle1609.00602v1 · Natasha E. Batalha, Ravi K. Kopparapu, Jacob Haqq-Misra et al.2016 · 54 citationsEarth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 455, p. 7-13, 2016
Could Cirrus Clouds Have Warmed Early Mars?30774148 · Ramirez, Ramses M, Kasting, James F2025 · 43 citationsIcarus. 2017;281:248-261
The inner edge of the habitable zone for synchronously rotating planets around low-mass stars using general circulation models1602.05176v1 · Ravi kumar Kopparapu, Eric T. Wolf, Jacob Haqq-Misra et al.2016 · 234 citationsarXiv
Exoplanet Exploration Program Analysis Group (ExoPAG) Report to Paul Hertz Regarding Large Mission Concepts to Study for the 2020 Decadal Survey1601.00008v1 · B. Scott Gaudi, Eric Agol, Daniel Apai et al.2015 · 2 citationsarXiv
Testing the Early Mars H2-CO2 Greenhouse Hypothesis with a 1-D Photochemical Model1507.02569v1 · Natasha Batalha, Shawn D. Domagal-Goldman, Ramses Ramirez et al.2015 · 67 citationsIcarus, 2015 Volume 258, 15 September 2015, Pages 337-349
Where do we go from here? Astrobiology editorial board opinions.25102138 · Cady, Lawrence P, Brack, André, Bueno Prieto, Jorge E et al.2015 · 1 citationAstrobiology. 2014;14(8):629-44
Can increased atmospheric CO2 levels trigger a runaway greenhouse?25061956 · Ramirez, Ramses M, Kopparapu, Ravi Kumar, Lindner, Valerie et al.2015 · 57 citationsAstrobiology. 2014;14(8):714-31
Warming early Mars with CO2 and H21405.6701v1 · Ramses M. Ramirez, Ravi Kopparapu, Michael E. Zugger et al.2014 · 303 citationsNature Geoscience 7, 59 to 63 (2014)
Habitable Zones Around Main-Sequence Stars: Dependence on Planetary Mass1404.5292v2 · Ravi kumar Kopparapu, Ramses M. Ramirez, James SchottelKotte et al.2014 · 661 citationsarXiv
Extrasolar planets: Inner edge of the habitable zone.24336278 · Kasting, James F, Harman, Chester E2014 · 21 citationsNature. 2013;504(7479):221-3
Remote life-detection criteria, habitable zone boundaries, and the frequency of Earth-like planets around M and late K stars.24277805 · Kasting, James F, Kopparapu, Ravikumar, Ramirez, Ramses M et al.2014 · 157 citationsProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 2014;111(35):12641-6
How close is Earth to a runaway greenhouse?1306.5730v3 · Ramses M. Ramirez, Ravi kumar Kopparapu, Valerie Lindner et al.2013 · 0 citationsarXiv
Atmospheric production of glycolaldehyde under hazy prebiotic conditions.23695543 · Harman, Chester E, Kasting, James F, Wolf, Eric T2014 · 41 citationsOrigins of life and evolution of the biosphere : the journal of the International Society for the Study of the Origin of Life. 2013;43(2):77-98
Habitable Zones Around Main-Sequence Stars: New Estimates1301.6674v2 · Ravi kumar Kopparapu, Ramses Ramirez, James F. Kasting et al.2013 · 1,610 citationsarXivon Valency
Atmospheric science. How was early Earth kept warm?23288532 · Kasting, James F2013 · 17 citationsScience (New York, N.Y.). 2013;339(6115):44-5
The Habitable-Zone Planet Finder: A Stabilized Fiber-Fed NIR Spectrograph for the Hobby-Eberly Telescope1209.1686v1 · Suvrath Mahadevan, Lawrence Ramsey, Chad Bender et al.2012 · 205 citationsarXiv
Atmospheric oxygenation and volcanism.22837006 · Kasting, James F, Catling, David C, Zahnle, Kevin2012 · 15 citationsNature. 2012;487(7408):E1; discussion E2
The carbonate-silicate cycle and CO2/climate feedbacks on tidally locked terrestrial planets.22775488 · Edson, Adam R, Kasting, James F, Pollard, David et al.2012 · 76 citationsAstrobiology. 2012;12(6):562-71
Greenhouse warming by nitrous oxide and methane in the Proterozoic Eon.21682839 · Roberson, A L, Roadt, J, Halevy, I et al.2011 · 83 citationsGeobiology. 2011;9(4):313-20
Low pCO2 in the pore water, not in the Archean air.21637211 · Dauphas, N, Kasting, J F2011 · 37 citationsNature. 2011;474(7349):E2-3; discussion E4-5
Using biogenic sulfur gases as remotely detectable biosignatures on anoxic planets.21663401 · Domagal-Goldman, Shawn D, Meadows, Victoria S, Claire, Mark W et al.2012 · 191 citationsAstrobiology. 2011;11(5):419-41
Availability of O(2) and H(2)O(2) on pre-photosynthetic Earth.21545266 · Haqq-Misra, Jacob, Kasting, James F, Lee, Sukyoung2012 · 73 citationsAstrobiology. 2011;11(4):293-302
Habitable planets: what are we learning from Kepler and ground-based searches?21563958 · Kasting, James F2012 · 1 citationAstrobiology. 2011;11(4):363-6
The effect of a strong stellar flare on the atmospheric chemistry of an earth-like planet orbiting an M dwarf.20879863 · Segura, Antígona, Walkowicz, Lucianne M, Meadows, Victoria et al.2010 · 448 citationsAstrobiology. 2010;10(7):751-71
Light scattering from exoplanet oceans and atmospheres1006.3525v4 · Michael E. Zugger, James F. Kasting, Darren M. Williams et al.2010 · 105 citationsarXiv
Early earth: faint young sun redux.20360727 · Kasting, James F2010 · 84 citationsNature. 2010;464(7289):687-9
Discovering and Characterizing the Planetary Systems of Nearby Stars: The scientific need for medium aperture space coronagraph observations0902.4219v1 · Tom Greene, Kerri Cahoy, Olivier Guyon et al.2009 · 0 citationsarXiv
A revised, hazy methane greenhouse for the Archean Earth.19093801 · Haqq-Misra, Jacob D, Domagal-Goldman, Shawn D, Kasting, Patrick J et al.2009 · 357 citationsAstrobiology. 2008;8(6):1127-37
Worlds beyond: A strategy for the detection and characterization of exoplanets. Executive summary of a report of the ExoPlanet Task Force Astronomy and Astrophysics Advisory Committee Washington, DC June 23, 2008.18800860 · Lunine, Jonathan I, Fischer, Debra, Hammel, H B et al.2009 · 31 citationsAstrobiology. 2008;8(5):875-81
Worlds Beyond: A Strategy for the Detection and Characterization of Exoplanets0808.2754v3 · J. I. Lunine, D. Fischer, H. Hammel et al.2008 · 25 citationsarXiv
Habitable planets around the star Gl 581?0710.5294v3 · Franck Selsis, J. F. Kasting, B. Levrard et al.2007 · 527 citationsAstronomy and Astrophysics 476 (2007) 1373-1387
Palaeoclimatology: evidence for hot early oceans?17476216 · Shields, Graham A, Kasting, James F2007 · 52 citationsNature. 2007;447(7140):E1; discussion E1-2
Could we identify hot Ocean-Planets with CoRoT, Kepler and Doppler velocimetry?astro-ph/0701608v2 · F. Selsis, B. Chazelas, P. Borde et al.2007 · 102 citationsarXiv
Atmospheric composition and climate on the early Earth.17008214 · Kasting, James F, Howard, M Tazewell2006 · 175 citationsPhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences. 2006;361(1474):1733-41; discussion 1741-2
Earth sciences: ups and downs of ancient oxygen.17035990 · Kasting, James F2006 · 25 citationsNature. 2006;443(7112):643-5
Palaeoclimates: the first two billion years.16754607 · Kasting, James F, Ono, Shuhei2006 · 144 citationsPhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences. 2006;361(1470):917-29
Biosignatures from Earth-like planets around M dwarfs.16379526 · Segura, Antígona, Kasting, James F, Meadows, Victoria et al.2006 · 522 citationsAstrobiology. 2005;5(6):706-25
Palaeoclimatology: Archaean atmosphere and climate.15584095 · Kasting, James F2004 · 16 citationsNature. 2004;432(7016):1 p following 460
When methane made climate.15255591 · Kasting, James F2004 · 52 citationsScientific American. 2004;291(1):78-85
Ozone concentrations and ultraviolet fluxes on Earth-like planets around other stars.14987475 · Segura, Antígona, Krelove, Kara, Kasting, James F et al.2004 · 378 citationsAstrobiology. 2003;3(4):689-708
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