February 17, 2020 updates Posted on February 17, 2020June 28, 2020 by Doug Loss Breakthrough Listen’s Search for Intelligent Life (SETI) Releases Unprecedented Data Survey of Milky Way’s Galactic Center, Earth Transit Zone and Interstellar Comet 2I/Borisov https://breakthroughinitiatives.org/news/28 Coherent radio emission from a quiescent red dwarf indicative of star–planet interaction https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-020-1011-9 Advances in Mach Effect Gravitational Assist (MEGA) Drive Experimentation http://jbis.org.uk/paper/2019.72.376 NRAO, SETI Institute Agree on New Research Programs https://public.nrao.edu/news/nrao-seti-institute-new-research/ Extrasolar Terrestrial Planet Characterization and the Search for Life https://aaas.confex.com/aaas/2020/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/25450 Hunting for Technosignatures https://aaas.confex.com/aaas/2020/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/25448 When is the Evidence Sufficient to Claim the Discovery of Extraterrestrial Life? https://aaas.confex.com/aaas/2020/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/25451 New aluminium hydroxide at multimegabar pressures: Implications for water reservoirs in deep planetary interiors https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0019103518306274 COol Companions ON Ultrawide orbiTS (COCONUTS). I. A High-Gravity T4 Benchmark around an Old White Dwarf and A Re-Examination of the Surface-Gravity Dependence of the L/T Transition https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.05723 Planetary Architectures in Interacting Stellar Environments https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.05727 HATS-47b, HATS-48Ab, HATS-49b and HATS-72b: Four Warm Giant Planets Transiting K Dwarfs https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.05776 Evidence for Spin-orbit Alignment in the TRAPPIST-1 System https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.05892 The Breakthrough Listen Search for Intelligent Life: A 3.95-8.00 GHz Search for Radio Technosignatures in the Restricted Earth Transit Zone https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.06162 Evaluating the Effect of Four Immeasurable Parameters Included in a Latitudinal Energy Balance Model on the Habitability of Exoplanets https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.06907