Interstellar Updates

Algorithmic bottlenecks in evolution: Genetic code, symbolic language, and the Great Filter hypothesis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.04498

Hypergravity exposure leads to persistent effects on geotaxis and activity in Drosophila melanogaster
https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/229/8/jeb251327/371426/Hypergravity-exposure-leads-to-persistent-effects

Advancements in soft robotics: materials, actuation, modeling, and applications
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2053-1591/ae5d8d

Impact of Climate States and Seasons on Future Exo-Earth Observations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.04187

Smaller Than Earth Habitability Model (STEHM): The Lower Size Limit for Atmosphere Retention in the Habitable Zone
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.00170

Searching for GEMS: Three warm Saturns and a super-Jupiter orbiting four early M-dwarfs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.27064

The Influences of Hydrogen-Silicate-Iron Miscibility on the Demographics of Sub-Neptunes and Super-Earths
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.28135

Horizontal transport as a source of disequilibrium chemistry on the nightside of a hot exoplanet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.04936

The dark and featureless surface of rocky exoplanet LHS 3844 b from JWST mid-infrared spectroscopy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.00100

Modeling Volcanic Plume Heights Across Exoplanet Atmospheres: Insights from TRAPPIST-1
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.04423

The NUV transit of XO-3 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.05068

The Transit Timing and Transmission Spectrum of Hot Jupiter WASP-43 b from a Decade of Multiband Transit follow-up Observations
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ae5b78

Unraveling the Mystery of the Peculiar and Young Hot Jupiter CoRoT-2b. I. H2O and CO Detection from Dayside Observations with Gemini-S/IGRINS
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ae5ba6

The Days Drag On on WASP-121 b: Interpreting its NIRISS Spectroscopic Phase Curve with General Circulation Models
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.01589

TOI-159 b: an eccentric hot-Jupiter planet around a young, pulsating γ Doradus star
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.04149

The ESO SupJup Survey. X. A carbon isotope contrast in the young ROXs 12 system
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.03508

Asteroseismic modelling of main-sequence solar-like stars and Kepler exoplanet host stars with the FICO procedure I. Catalogue of fundamental stellar properties
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.27842

Thermal instability and rocky planetesimal formation in the inner regions of protoplanetary disks
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.27581

JWST/MIRI Hydrocarbon and Water Absorption in the Wind of a Young Disk: Signatures of Pebble Drift and Carbon Grain Sublimation
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ae5e6a

Outstanding Questions in Giant Planet Theory
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.02818

The Rocky Planet Picture Show: Implementation of Surface Reflection and Emission in POSEIDON with Application to and Interpretation of JWST Data
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.00700

PALEOS: Multiphase Equations of State and Mass-Radius Relations for Exoplanet Interiors
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.03741

TOI-4552 b: A new ultra-short-period rocky world revealed by NIRPS and TESS
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2026/05/aa58749-25/aa58749-25.html

Characterizing the bolometric-photoevaporative transition in young sub-Neptunes with radiation-hydrodynamic simulations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.02766

A break in planet occurrence near the pebble isolation mass should be observable by the Roman microlensing survey
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2026/05/aa59089-26/aa59089-26.html

On the Dust Substructures Triggered by Two Super-Earths Migrating in Low-viscosity Disks
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.01955

Synergistic Effects of Ocean Salinity and Planetary Obliquity Enhance Habitability of Cold Exo-Earths
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.03994

High CO/H2 ratio supports an exocometary origin for a CO-rich debris disc
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2026/05/aa57969-25/aa57969-25.html

Tentative detection of the glycine isomer glycolamide in a hot molecular core
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2026/05/aa59347-26/aa59347-26.html

Modeling the UV-photon irradiation of CS-bearing ices in the laboratory with the pyRate gas-grain astrochemical code. New insights into the missing sulfur problem
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.03725

Interpretability of deep-learning methods applied to large-scale structure surveys
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2026/05/aa53963-25/aa53963-25.html

A public dataset of Ariel simulated observations for developing exoplanetary atmosphere data reduction pipelines
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.03719

Mitigating effects of telescope jitter through differentiable forward-modeling
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.03445

Detection of 27 candidate circumbinary planets through apsidal precession of eclipsing binaries observed by TESS
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/548/3/stag515/8524019

Carbon dioxide concentration alters cyanobacterial carboxysome encapsulation and redox state in Synechococcus sp. PCC 7002
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42082731/

The macromolecules and lipid biomarkers as seen in the archean white mfolozi banded iron formation (BIF): Their biogenicity and possible implications for mars
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42056741/

Effects of carbon dioxide on physical and cognitive performance in a simulated spacesuit contingency scenario
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41526-026-00589-x

Survival of NASA-cleanroom microbial isolates under simulated space and Martian conditions
https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/aem.02065-25

Extreme Arabian environments and their microbiomes: new frontiers for astrobiology and biosignature discovery
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00792-026-01426-5

The effect of spectral resolution on biosignature detection via reflected light observations of the Earth through time
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.26925

A TESS Test of the Hybrid Ring Strategy for Technosignature Searches Using GRB 221009A
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.06807

GRAPH readout ASIC for large aperture, high resolution single photon imaging detectors designated for space applications
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-0221/21/04/C04086

Precision Astrometry: A Stereoscopic Twin Imaging System (PASTIS)
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1538-3873/ae5a03

Charge diffusion and modulation transfer function in a Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope detector
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.26114

Blinded Mock Data Challenge: Is the Spectral Siren Technique Robust for Measuring the Hubble Constant?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.26273

Oxygen and nitrogen isotopologues on cold COCONUTS-2b observed with MIRI/MRS
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.26850

The Solubility of N2 in High-pressure Ice and Its Consequent Outgassing Limitations in Water Worlds
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ae5820

XUE. Modeling MIR Molecular Gas Tracers of Truncation in Highly Irradiated Planet-forming Disks
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ae5b83

A very eccentric brown dwarf coplanar to a warm Jupiter and a hot super Earth
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.23926

The tale of the 3 planets: 3D cloud feedback enhances the spectral diversity of warm Jupiters
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.26911

Supersolar Metallicity and Tentative Evidence for Photochemistry on WASP-96 b from JWST and Ground-based VLT Transmission Spectroscopy
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ae5b9f

RV and TTV Measurements of Two Transiting Long-Period Giants around TOI-4600
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.26426

Machine Learning as a Transformative Tool for (Exo-)Planetary Science
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.09152

PEEPSS: Photonic-Enabled ExoPlanet Spectroscopic Sensor for the Habitable Worlds Observatory
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.23126

ORCHARD: A General Planetary Evolution Code
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.24845

RSCL Earth Lookback Simulator: A Real-Time Multi-Physics Framework for Relativistic Signal Propagation from Confirmed Milky Way Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.24988

Impact of segmented deformable mirrors on high-contrast testbeds for exoplanet imaging with future large space telescopes: contrast stability assessment on the HiCAT bench
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.25675

Dust evolution during protoplanetary disk buildup enhances CO ice relative to water
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2026/05/aa59169-26/aa59169-26.html

Oxygen left behind: Atmospheric Enrichment due to Fractionation in Sub-Neptunes using BOREAS
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.12201

Uncovering the Rapidly Evolving Orbits of the Dynamic TOI-201 System
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.23929

A Theoretical Study of the Structure and Elemental Abundances of HD 20794
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.24596

Exploring the Impact of Tilted Magnetic Dipoles on the Atmospheric Dynamics of Hot Jupiters: Towards an Improved Magnetohydrodynamic Framework
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.25043

Exploring the conditions for forming planetesimals by the streaming instability and planetary systems by pebble accretion
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.25816

Exploring the surface of HD 189733 via Doppler shadow analysis of planetary transits
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2026/05/aa57655-25/aa57655-25.html

Constraining exotrojans in hot-Jupiter systems using transit timing variation observations from TESS
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2026/05/aa57704-25/aa57704-25.html