Interstellar Updates

 

These are items of interest to the interstellar exploration community that we’ve found in our quest for information that will help us advance toward our goals.  If you know of anything we’ve overlooked, or any sources of such information we should monitor, or if you would like to be added to our IRG-updates mailing list and receive these updates in you email every weekday, please send that information to info@irg.space.

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May 21, 2026 Updates

Dynamic Challenges and Future Trends in Large-Aperture Space Optical Systems
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S009457652600353X

The Era of Extremely Large Optical Telescopes The ELT
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.20305

Probabilistic graphical models in astronomy: Application to exoplanetary systems
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2213133726000715

Coupled Photochemical-Climate Modeling of Plausible Tenuous Outgassed Atmospheres on the TRAPPIST-1 Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.14101

The Role of Formation Location in Shaping Sulfur-, Nitrogen-, and Carbon-Bearing Species in Super-Earth and Sub-Neptune Atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.15170

Fizzy water ice in space: CO adsorption, binding energies and its fate in a protoplanetary disk
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.13308

Best practice and validation for interatomic potentials of molecular dynamics modeling of ice in planetary science
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0927025626002600

Experimental and computational study on flattening and punching of deployable composite shells for space applications
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S259012302602075X

Interplanetary frontiers: terraforming from an invasion science perspective
https://nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/oik.11683

May 20, 2026 Updates

The Changing Concept of Habitability on Earth, the Solar System, and Beyond
https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3263/16/5/190

Methodological Synergies between Technosignature and UHE Neutrino Searches
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.19482

The Nulling Interferometry Cryogenic Experiment (NICE): Architecture, requirements, and preliminary warm precursor results
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.02279

Artificial Intelligence for Planetary Exploration: Lessons Learned from a Decade of Analog Field Tests
https://www.mdpi.com/2673-4591/133/1/152

Spinning out of focus: The challenge of rotational line broadening in exoplanet reflection spectroscopy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.16491

Inferring stellar metallicity and elemental abundances from kinematic and spectroscopic data using machine learning – Implications for exoplanet host stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.18131

A Revised Mass and Period for the Habitable Zone super-Earth GJ 3378b: A Planet Straddling the Cosmic Shoreline
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.16499

Beyond Conventional Systems: How Solid-State Batteries Empower Energy Storage and Microgrid Development in Extraterrestrial Extreme Environments
https://www.mdpi.com/2313-0105/12/5/173

Active Galactic Nucleus Tori: Potential Birthplace to Millions of Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.19241

May 18th 2026 updates

The Maturity Hypothesis: Dimensional Transcendence and the Resolution of the Fermi Paradox
https://www.academia.edu/145908334/The_Maturity_Hypothesis_Dimensional_Transcendence_and_the_Resolution_of_the_Fermi_Paradox_Research_Edition_

Eccentric Stellar-mass Binary Black Holes: Population, Detectability, and Waveform Analysis in the LISA and LIGO Era
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2605.15265

The PARADIGM Project II: Characterising Nuclear and Diffuse Radio Components in Local U/LIRGs
https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stag929

May 15, 2026 Updates

Coupled Photochemical-Climate Modeling of Plausible Tenuous Outgassed Atmospheres on the TRAPPIST-1 Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.14101

Observation of spontaneous N-bearing PAH formation using ion trap: a new formation pathway in the interstellar medium
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.14424

Where Do Hot Jupiters Come From? Revisiting Tidal Disruption and Ejection in High-Eccentricity Migration
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.14433

Formulation of Personalized, Fortified Beverage Nanoemulsions for Space Exploration with Omega-3 Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsfoodscitech.5c01291

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