Interstellar Updates

Probing Ancient Biosignatures: Laser Mass Spectrometric Analysis of the 3.33 Ga Josefsdal Chert Using Laboratory and Space-prototype Instrumentation
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/PSJ/ae9839

Interstellar Complex Organic Molecules and Molecular Outflows in NGC 1333 IRAS 4B and 4B’ Observed Using NOEMA
https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.06295

That’s no moon: Exomoon survival and detection limitations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.07320

Shaving the Outskirts of Planetary Systems Probed by Roman via Stellar Flybys
https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.06112

The effect of the atmospheric C/O ratio on interiors of hot Jupiters
https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.07278

Project Setu: 3D Multi-Physics Design and Spaceflight-Validated Framework for a 0.20c Relativistic Lightsail
https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.06156

The Discovery of K2-232c: Divergent Formation Histories for Hot and Warm Jupiters Based on Outer Companion Eccentricity
https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.09077

JWST Excludes Exomoons Down to 0.1 Earth Radii Around a Rocky, Temperate Exoplanet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.05301

A Homogeneous Survey of JWST MIRI Transmission Spectra of 10 Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.05264

Interplanetary Dust Ablation Seeds Silicate Clouds in Exoplanet Atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.08960

Sea Ice as an Origin of Life Location for Hycean and Ocean Worlds
https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.07818

Ion abundances in the plasma tail of 3I/ATLAS show that it is N2-rich
https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stag1402

Peptides adopt stable omega-loop structures in concentrated sulfuric acid
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42696554/

3.5-meter Segmented-Mirror Robotic Space Telescope Mission White Paper I. Overall Architecture and Scientific Mission
https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.02571

Mass constraints for the K2-223 system planets: An ultra-short-period sub-Earth, a short-period super-Earth, and a tentative long-period giant planet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.01721

Precise Stellar Age Constraints and Habitable Zone Evolution in Exoplanet Systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.01790

A non-extensive diagnostic of spin-orbit coupling in close-in giant exoplanets
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1209/0295-5075/ae933c

Planet formation in chemically diverse and evolving discs II. Chemical fingerprints in planetary atmospheres
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2026/09/aa59459-26/aa59459-26.html

Spectral Energy Distribution Analysis for Habitable Worlds Observatory Target Stars
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1538-3873/ae99ff

Accelerating Chemical Kinetics for Exoplanet Atmospheres using Neural Networks
https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.00428

A JWST transiting survey of FGK stellar limb darkening: empirical evidence for quadratic laws and atmospheric model comparisons
https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.00263

Exoplanets in star clusters
https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.01013

Addressing the low-wind effect with the Lyot-based low-order wavefront sensor on SCExAO
https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.00737