July 4, 2018 updates Posted on July 4, 2018June 28, 2020 by Doug Loss Observing the universe with a camera traveling near the speed of light https://phys.org/news/2018-07-universe-camera.html Exoplanet Biosignatures: Future Directions https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2017.1738 Exoplanet Biosignatures: Observational Prospects https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2017.1733 Exoplanet Biosignatures: At the Dawn of a New Era of Planetary Observations https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2018.1862 A possible anorthositic continent of early Mars and the role of planetary size for the inception of Earth-like life https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1674987116302158 Chemical inhomogeneities in the Pleiades: signatures of rocky-forming material in stellar atmospheres https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.00941 A 4.6-year period brown-dwarf companion interacting with the hot-Jupiter CoRoT-20 b https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.01229 Quantifying the Observational Effort Required for the Radial Velocity Characterization of TESS Planets https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.01263 The stability of tightly-packed, evenly-spaced systems of Earth-mass planets orbiting a Sun-like star https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.08426