December 9, 2021 updates Posted on December 9, 2021 by Doug Loss A wide-orbit giant planet in the high-mass b Centauri binary system https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-04124-8 Kepler-223 resonance holds information about turbulence during the gas-disk phase https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2021/12/aa42176-21/aa42176-21.html A Wide Planetary Mass Companion Discovered through the Citizen Science Project Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ac2499 Exoplanets in the Galactic context: Planet occurrence rates in the thin disk, thick disk and stellar halo of Kepler stars https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.03927 A hot Mars-sized exoplanet transiting an M dwarf https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.03958 Geoastronomy: Rocky planets as the Lavosier-Lomonosov Bridge from the non-living to the living world https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.04309