August 31, 2021 updates Posted on August 31, 2021 by Doug Loss Astrotheology’s contribution to public theology: From the extraterrestrial intelligence myth to astroethics https://hts.org.za/index.php/hts/article/view/6855 Closed-form ab initio solutions of geometric albedos and reflected light phase curves of exoplanets https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-021-01444-7 Characterizing Undetected Stellar Companions with Combined Data Sets https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac0ae9 Optimizing Startshot lightsail design: a generative network-based approach https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.12999 Multiple moist climate equilibrium states on arid rocky M-dwarf planets: A last-saturation tracer analysis https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.12458 Milankovitch Cycles for a Circumstellar Earth-analog within α Centauri-like Binaries https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.12650 Abiotic molecular oxygen production — ionic pathway from sulphur dioxide https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.12672