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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October 08, 2025 updates

SA’s ExoMars and Mars Express observe comet 3I/ATLAS
https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/ESA_s_ExoMars_and_Mars_Express_observe_comet_3I_ATLAS

6,000 and counting: The next 30 years in the search for exoplanets
https://www.space.com/astronomy/exoplanets/6-000-and-counting-the-next-30-years-in-the-search-for-exoplanets

Strategic Communication Protocols for Interstellar Objects Using a Threat-Communication Viability Index and the Information-Communication Paradox
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03973

Predictions of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Galactic Exoplanet Survey. III. Detectability of Giant Exomoons of Wide-separation Giant Planets
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ae0196

Reassessment of Kepler’s habitable zone Earth-like exoplanets with data-driven null signal templates
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2513927122

Orbital decay candidates reconsidered: WASP-4 b is not decaying and Kepler-1658 b is not a planet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05229

The First Dedicated Survey of Atmospheric Escape from Planets Orbiting F Stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05240

Flow Regimes in Hot Jupiter Atmospheres: Insights from Anelastic Models
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05964

JWST-TST DREAMS: The Nightside Emission and Chemistry of WASP-17b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06169

October 07, 2025 updates

Challenges of false-positive biosignatures in atmospheres of terrestrial planets
https://dspace.cuni.cz/handle/20.500.11956/203619

These alien planets are astronomers’ favourites: here’s why
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03220-3

The Programmable Liquid-crystal Active Coronagraphic Imager for the 4-m DAG telescope (PLACID) instrument: Discovery Space and Status
https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EPSC-DPS2025/EPSC-DPS2025-1774.html

How to discover a planet
https://phys.org/news/2025-10-planet.html

FInding ExoeaRths: tackling the ChallengEs of stellar activity
https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101052347

PoET — Paranal solar ESPRESSO Telescope
https://poet.iastro.pt/

PLATO — Planetary Transits and Oscillations of Stars: the ESA M3 mission in the Cosmic Vision 2015-2025
https://platomission.com/

Lyα Emission from K and M Dwarfs: Intrinsic Profiles, Variability, and Flux in the Habitable Zone
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ae00c1

The Impact of Enhanced Extreme-ultraviolet Flux on the Upper Atmosphere of Earth-like Exoplanets
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/adff7f

Chemistry, Climate, and Transmission Spectra of TRAPPIST-1 e Explored with a Multimodel Sparse Sampled Ensemble
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/PSJ/ae031e

The Role of Artificial Intelligence in the Discovery and Characterization of Exoplanets
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/9781394355518.ch3

Exploring Astrobiology and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI)
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/9781394355518.ch11

The impact of internal versus external perturbations on close-in exoplanet architectures
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03401

Heat Reveals What Clouds Longitudinally Asymmetric Chemistry on LTT 9779 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04863

A Link Between Rocky Planet Density and Host Star Chemistry
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04981

Minimum Sample Size Calculation for Multivariable Regression of Continuous Outcomes in Chemometrics for Astrobiology and Planetary Science
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01210

October 06, 2025 Updates

How long does the human civilization need to last in order to observe another advanced intelligence in the Universe?
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/395989367_How_long_does_the_human_civilization_need_to_last_in_order_to_observe_another_advanced_intelligence_in_the_Universe

The Fermi Paradox Dissolved: Examining the Metaphysical Underpinnings of the Main Arguments Giving Rise to the Fermi Paradox
https://www.academia.edu/11899447/The_Fermi_Paradox_Dissolved_Examining_the_Metaphysical_Underpinnings_of_the_Main_Arguments_Giving_Rise_to_the_Fermi_Paradox

Optical Design Pathways to Fluidic Space-Assembled Reflectors & Dual-Configuration Spectrographs for Characterizing Exo-Earths
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02479

Habitable World Discovery and Characterization: Coronagraph Concept of Operations and Data Post-Processing
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02547

Exploring Warm Jupiter Migration Pathways with Eccentricities. I. Catalog of Uniform Keplerian Fits to Radial Velocities of 200 Warm Jupiters
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02564

Exploring Warm Jupiter Migration Pathways with Eccentricities II. Correlations with Host Star Properties and Orbital Separation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02591

JCMT detection of HCN emission from 3I/ATLAS at 2.1 AU
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02817

Advancing the Concept Maturity Level of the Servicing Architecture for Habitable Worlds Observer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03214

Blink and you’ll miss it – How Technological Acceleration Shrinks SETI’s Narrow Detection Window
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0094576525006538

Comparative Analysis of Polarization in Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS with Distant Solar System Comets
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ae0d91

Multi-band Spectral and Astrometric Characterization of the HIP 99770 b Planet with SCExAO/CHARIS and Gaia
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ae0195

Revisiting the Atmosphere of HD-149026 b: The Role of Stellar Abundances and Choice of Opacities in Exoplanet Atmosphere Modeling
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/staf1671/8272721

October 3, 2025 updates

Novel Space Propulsion System Based on Cosmic Energy Inversion (CEIT) Theory: Theoretical Framework and Implementation Analysis
https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202509.2209/v1

From the Big Bang to Wormhole Exits: Tenson Particles, Gravitational Wave Anomalies, and the Philosophy of Space-Time
https://philarchive.org/rec/NEMFTB

Beyond the Dark Forest: A Comprehensive Reassessment and Enhanced Theoretical Framework for Galactic Civilization Dynamics
https://zenodo.org/records/17252828

Astronomical observations with the Danish telescope at the ESO / La Silla observatory 2025
https://zenodo.org/records/17195336

Observation of undepleted phosphine in the atmosphere of a low-temperature brown dwarf
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adu0401

Exomorphic Catalysis: A Discipline Dedicated to Energetic Disequilibria and the Activation of Life-Potential in Non-Terrestrial Environments
https://eartharxiv.org/repository/view/10225/

Multi-frequency observations of PDS70c: Radio emission mechanisms in the circumplanetary environment
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/10/aa54485-25/aa54485-25.html

Global magnetohydrodynamic simulations of the inner regions of protoplanetary discs. I. Zero-net flux regime
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/staf1672/8269933

The Intelligent Universe: AI’s Role in Astronomy
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781394355518

Electrical Resistivity of Liquid Fe-16S-2Si up to 13 GPa With Implications for the Adiabatic Heat Flux Through the Core of Exoplanet TRAPPIST-1h
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2025JE009203

ExoClock Project IV: A homogeneous catalogue of 620 updated exoplanet ephemerides
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/396161206_ExoClock_Project_IV_A_homogeneous_catalogue_of_620_updated_exoplanet_ephemerides

Solar Hegemony: M-Dwarfs Are Unlikely to Host Observers Such as Ourselves
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01215

Dynamical Excitation as a probe of planetary origins
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01332

Advancing Interstellar Science: A Global Framework for Comprehensive Study of Interstellar Objects
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01405

Investigating the need for a robust ultraviolet filter set aboard the Habitable Worlds Observatory
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02054

High Five From ASTEP: Three Validated Planets and Two Eclipsing Binaries in a Diverse Set of Long-Period Candidates
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01725

A Large Sample of JWST/NIRSpec Brown Dwarfs: New Distant Discoveries
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02026

Understanding the Origins of Super-Puff Planets: A New Mass-Loss Regime Coupled to Planetary Evolution
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02201

October 02, 2025 updates

Discovery of an Accretion Burst in a Free-floating Planetary-mass Object
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ae09a8

Using Venus, Earth, and Mars to Understand Exoplanet Volatile and Climate Evolution
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2024JE008882

Exoplanets beyond the Conservative Habitable Zone: I. Habitability
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00736

Exoplanets beyond the Conservative Habitable Zone: II. Occurrence
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00782

A planetary system with a sub-Neptune planet in the habitable zone of TOI-2093
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00299

Molecular Mobility of Extraterrestrial Ices: Surface Diffusion in Astrochemistry and Planetary Science
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01018

Redshifted civilizations, galactic empires, and the Fermi paradox
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00377

Technosignatures of Self-Replicating Probes in the Solar System
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00082

A Cold and Super-Puffy Planet on a Polar Orbit
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00102

What’s in Your Transit? Towards Reliably Getting 5x More Science from Exoplanet Transit Data
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00124

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