May 17, 2022 updates Posted on May 17, 2022 by Doug Loss AbSciCon 2022: From Stars to Cells https://astrobiology.nasa.gov/news/abscicon-2022-open-public-events/ Nexus for Exoplanet System Science https://nexss.info/ Network for Life Detection https://www.nfold.org/ Request for Information: Early Cells to Multicellularity https://astrobiology.nasa.gov/news/request-for-information-early-cells-to-multicellularity/ Searching for the origin of the Ehrenreich effect in ultra-hot Jupiters – Evidence for strong C/O gradients in the atmosphere of WASP-76 b? https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/05/aa42591-21/aa42591-21.html HD 83443c: A Highly Eccentric Giant Planet on a 22 yr Orbit https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac6589 Water UV-shielding in the Terrestrial Planet-forming Zone: Implications from Water Emission https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ac66ce Resolving the Multiplicity of Exoplanet Host Stars in Gemini/NIRI Data https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.06899 To Sample or Not To Sample: Retrieving Exoplanetary Spectra with Variational Inference and Normalising Flows https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.07037 Transfer of Rocks between Planetary Systems: Panspermia Revisited https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.07799 The Visual Survey Group: A Decade of Hunting Exoplanets and Unusual Stellar Events with Space-Based Telescopes https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.07832 Patchy nightside clouds on ultra-hot Jupiters: General Circulation Model simulations with radiatively active cloud tracers https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.07834 Five key exoplanet questions answered via the analysis of 25 hot Jupiter atmospheres in eclipse https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.11729