September 6, 2018 updates Posted on September 6, 2018June 28, 2020 by Doug Loss Success in critical communications tests for NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2018/success-in-critical-communications-tests-for-nasas-james-webb-space-telescope Kepler resumes operations despite malfunctioning thruster https://spacenews.com/kepler-resumes-operations-despite-malfunctioning-thruster/ Exoplanet Science Strategy https://www.nap.edu/catalog/25187/exoplanet-science-strategy Habitable Climate Scenarios for Proxima Centauri b with a Dynamic Ocean https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2017.1760 Continuous reorientation of synchronous terrestrial planets controlled by mantle convection https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.01150 Detecting isotopologues in exoplanet atmospheres using ground-based high-dispersion spectroscopy https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.01156 Effects of non-Kozai mutual inclinations on two-planet system stability through all phases of stellar evolution https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.01157 Radial velocities from the N2K Project: 6 new cold gas giant planets orbiting HD 55696, HD 98736, HD 148164, HD 203473, and HD 211810 https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.01228 KMT-2017-BLG-0165Lb: A Super-Neptune mass planet Orbiting a Sun-like Host Star https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.01288 Idealized Wind-driven Ocean Circulations On Exoplanets https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.01376 Differences in water vapor radiative transfer among 1D models can significantly affect the inner edge of the habitable zone https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.01397 Abrupt climate transition of icy worlds from snowball to moist or runaway greenhouse https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.01418 Magma oceans as a critical stage in the tectonic development of rocky planets https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.01629