May 10, 2022 updates Posted on May 10, 2022 by Doug Loss China is on the hunt for ‘Earth 2.0’ with proposed space telescope https://www.space.com/china-earth-like-exoplanet-telescope Traversable wormholes with like-Casimir complexity supported with arbitrarily small amount of exotic matter https://link.springer.com/article/10.1140/epjc/s10052-022-10389-8 Exploring Ocean Circulation on Icy Moons Heated From Below https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2021JE007025 A scaled-up planetary system around a supernova progenitor https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.02279 Results from The COPAINS Pilot Survey: Four new brown dwarfs and a high companion detection rate for accelerating stars https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stac1250/6583003 Earliest photic zone niches probed by ancestral microbial rhodopsins https://academic.oup.com/mbe/advance-article/doi/10.1093/molbev/msac100/6582242 Scaling K2. V. Statistical Validation of 60 New Exoplanets From K2 Campaigns 2–18 https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac5c4c Peaceful Use of Lasers in Space? Potential, Risks, and Norms for Using Lasers in Space https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0265964622000157 SETI From the Perspective of Intercivilizational Politics https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0265964622000169 Analysis of circular gratings as image plane coronagraph filters https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0030401822003017 Interstellar planetesimals https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.04277 Five thousand exoplanets at the NASA Exoplanet Archive https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-022-01661-8 Bayesian Characterisation of Circumbinary Exoplanets with LISA https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.03461 Giant Planets from the Inside-Out https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.04100