New census of sun’s neighbors reveals best potential real estate for life
https://phys.org/news/2026-01-census-sun-neighbors-reveals-potential.html
ALMA devours cosmic ‘hamburger,’ reveals potential for giant planet formation
https://phys.org/news/2026-01-alma-devours-cosmic-hamburger-reveals.html
No TiO detected in the hot-Neptune-desert planet LTT-9779 b in reflected light at high spectral resolution
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2026/01/aa57240-25/aa57240-25.html
Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS: Evidence for Galactic Cosmic-Ray Processing
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ae2fff
Helium Atmospheres May Hide in Current Exoplanet Analysis Frameworks
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ae2f5c
Towards a global model for planet formation in layered MHD wind-driven discs: A population synthesis approach to investigate the impact of low viscosity and accretion layer thickness
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.02479
Catching 3I/ATLAS Using a Solar Oberth
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.02533
Dearth of Photosynthetically Active Radiation Suggests No Complex Life on Late M-Star Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.02548
Where does the simplified Stellar Contamination Model fail in Exoplanet Transmission Spectroscopy?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.02621
Quantifying the Contamination of TESS Ecliptic-Plane Light Curves by Minor Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.02637
TOI-4495: A Pair of Aligned, Near-Resonant Sub-Neptunes that Likely Experienced Overstable Migration
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.02665