March 28, 2018 updates Posted on March 28, 2018June 28, 2020 by Doug Loss WFIRST work continues despite budget and schedule uncertainty http://spacenews.com/wfirst-work-continues-despite-budget-and-schedule-uncertainty/ An Earth-sized exoplanet with a Mercury-like composition https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-018-0420-5 A Universal Break in the Planet-to-star Mass-ratio Function of Kepler MKG Stars http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/aab6ac Distinguishing the albedo of exoplanets from stellar activity https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2018/03/aa31206-17/aa31206-17.html Shifting of the resonance location for planets embedded in circumstellar disks https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2018/03/aa32070-17/aa32070-17.html Dynamical models to explain observations with SPHERE in planetary systems with double debris belts https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2018/03/aa31426-17/aa31426-17.html Systematic Search for Rings around Kepler Planet Candidates: Constraints on Ring Size and Occurrence Rate https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.09114 A New Desalination Pump Help Define the pH of Ocean Worlds https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.08937 Global-Mean Vertical Tracer Mixing in Planetary Atmospheres https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.09149 Influence of stellar structure, evolution and rotation on the tidal damping of exoplanetary spin-orbit angles https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.09661 Orbital alignment of circumbinary planets that form in misaligned circumbinary discs: the case of Kepler-413b https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.10061 Eccentricities and Inclinations of Multi-Planet Systems with External Perturbers https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.06220