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.

You can now search our database of interstellar updates and find items of interest to you.

October 1, 2026 Updates

The Astronomical Hub: A Unified Ecosystem for Modern Astronomical Research
https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.39287

Policy Analysis of Nuclear-Powered Propulsion for Asteroid Mining: Implications of Space Small Modular Reactors (S-SMRs)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2468896726001151

Project CERES: Nuclear Thermal Transportation and In-Situ Propellant Production A Foundational Architecture for Solar System Logistics
https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.40011

Space Journey Beyond Earth: Exploring the properties of exoplanets and multi-planetary systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.38449

TOI-6981 b: a transiting sub-Neptune at the water ice line
https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.37597

September 30, 2026 Updates

Toward extraterrestrial librarianship: Designing knowledge systems for human settlements in space
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S246889672600039X

Improved Constraints on the Surface of LHS 3844 b from its Mid-Infrared Spectrum
https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.37982

Constraining exoplanet population parameters with Kepler and simulation-based inference
https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.37960

Detection of fine-structured radio bursts during a superflare on EQ Peg
https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.37909

September 28, 2026 Updates

Volatile depletion in rocky planets as a chemical fingerprint of hybrid accretion
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.24407

On the Compositions of Interstellar Objects
https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.30827

Exoplanet Detection Techniques: Radial Velocity
https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.29378

Triggering star formation by free-floating planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.28744

Discovery of radio emission from the exoplanet β Pictoris b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.16720

Flare-driven habitability: Expanding life’s potential around low-mass stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.24944

September 25, 2026 Updates

Mapping the WISPIT2 Planet-Hosting Cavity at Sub-Hill-Radius scales
https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.04946

1I/’Oumuamua-like objects’s SFDs with older, current and future surveys
https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.25488

On-demand microfluidic synthesis of silver nanoparticles for SERS detection of organic compounds: A preliminary feasibility study for astrobiology applications
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1386142526013478

GEMS JWST: Hold on to Your HATS(-6 b), a Subsolar-metallicity Giant Planet with Water, Methane, and Ammonia in its Atmosphere
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ae9858

Evidence for an Atmosphere on the Ultra-short-period Super-Earth HD 3167 b
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ae7f23

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