January 13, 2023 updates Posted on January 13, 2023January 14, 2023 by Doug Loss NASA starts designing futuristic space telescope to hunt for alien Earthshttps://www.space.com/habitable-worlds-observatory-first-glimpse NASA unveils initial plan for multibillion-dollar telescope to find life on alien worldshttps://www.science.org/content/article/nasa-unveils-initial-plan-multibillion-dollar-telescope-find-life-alien-worlds Formation of rocky super-earths from a narrow ring of planetesimals https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-022-01850-5 Rotation Periods, Inclinations, and Obliquities of Cool Stars Hosting Directly Imaged Substellar Companions: Spin-Orbit Misalignments are Commonhttps://arxiv.org/abs/2301.04692 A Two-limb Explanation for the Optical-to-infrared Transmission Spectrum of the Hot Jupiter HAT-P-32Abhttps://arxiv.org/abs/2301.04812 Space environment and magnetospheric Poynting fluxes of the exoplanet τ Boötis b https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.05015 Venus, Phosphine and the Possibility of Lifehttps://arxiv.org/abs/2301.05160 Observability of silicates in volatile atmospheres of super-Earths and sub-Neptuneshttps://arxiv.org/abs/2301.05190