May 24, 2022 updates Posted on May 24, 2022 by Doug Loss The Origin of Life: What Is the Question? https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2021.0162 A ubiquitous unifying degeneracy in two-body microlensing systems https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-022-01671-6 Predicting the Exoplanet Yield of the TESS Prime and Extended Missions through Years 1–7 https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac68e3 TOI-1696 and TOI-2136: Constraining the Masses of Two Mini-Neptunes with the Habitable-Zone Planet Finder https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac69ec Negative polarization of light at backscattering from a numerical analog of planetary regoliths https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0019103522002068 A statistical primer on exoplanet detection methods https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.10417 Four sub-Jovian-mass planets detected by high-cadence microlensing surveys https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.10510 The GAPS Programme at TNG: XXXVI. Measurement of the Rossiter-McLaughlin effect and revising the physical and orbital parameters of the HAT-P-15, HAT-P-17, HAT-P-21, HAT-P-26, HAT-P-29 eccentric planetary systems https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.10549 Galactic Kites https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.10618 The Hubble PanCET Program: A Featureless Transmission Spectrum for WASP-29b and Evidence of Enhanced Atmospheric Metallicity on WASP-80b https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.10765 Venus as an Exoplanet: I. An Initial Exploration of the 3-D Energy Balance for a CO2 Exoplanetary Atmosphere Around an M-Dwarf Star https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.10958 The need for a public forecast of stellar activity to optimise exoplanet radial velocity detections & transmission spectroscopy https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.11187 Dynamical essence of the eccentric von Zeipel-Lidov-Kozai effect in restricted hierarchical planetary systems https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.11238