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 28, 2026 Updates

SPHEREx confirms predictions for artificial satellite trail pollution in Low Earth Orbit
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.27501

The unique ability of the Hubble Space Telescope to characterize young exoplanet environments
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.28768

The HAges Catalog: Stellar Ages for High-priority HWO Target Stars
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ae69d7

Direct Imaging Constraints on Binary Planets and Exomoons around Epsilon Indi A b
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ae5f69

Comparing telluric removal methods in their capability to recover injected exoplanet atmosphere signals with high resolution emission spectroscopy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.28635

Postperihelion Integral Field Spectroscopy of the Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ae6243

New Asteroseismic Constraints on Evolved Transiting Planet Systems TOI-2669 and TOI-4551
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ae7074

Formation of stable exoplanetary systems around pulsars by capture: An exercise in computational classical mechanics
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6404/ae7220

Life Is But a Stream: The Distribution of Planetary Systems along Stellar Streams and Their Properties
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ae67fd

Reading between the Rings: Observed Dust Ring Properties as Probes of Planet Masses
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ae6272

May 27, 2026 Updates

Fixed-time sliding mode consensus control for multiple solar sail formations in planetary inclined elliptic displaced orbits with actuator faults
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11071-026-12507-7

The intricate path to life identification
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1038/s41550-026-02883-w

Protobiosignatures in the framework of early life detection
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1038/s41550-026-02867-w

The role of the Hubble Space Telescope in advancing our understanding of atmospheric escape in exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.26140

See the clouds streaming and vanishing around this planet – 690 light years away
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01608-3

Hot Jupiters’ Isolation Is Not Unique to High-Eccentricity Tidal Migration
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.27362

Heavy element enrichment of gas in surface-accretion disks: A possible origin of the mass-metallicity anti-correlation in exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.27289

The SPHERE infrared survey for exoplanets (SHINE) V. Full sample characterization
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.27247

The small transiting planet population revealed by ESPRESSO with extreme precision radial velocities
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.27002

From streamers to stars: overcoming mass loss in protoplanetary disks
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.26764

Bimodality in Rotational Modulation of Planet-Hosting Stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.26197

Lithium-rich M-dwarfs at the ZAMS: Evidence for planetary engulfment?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.25747

May 26th 2026 updates

Silicate cosmic dust grain collisions in the interstellar medium: A molecular dynamics study
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2605.22225

PIC simulations of nonrelativistic high-Mach-number oblique shocks propagating in a turbulent medium
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2605.21986

The Search for Technosignatures: a Review of Possibilities
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2605.21093

ExoMol line lists – LXVIII: Rotation-vibration-electronic spectroscopy of Potassium Hydride (KH)
https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stag979

Producing planetary debris exterior to white dwarf Roche radii through sublimative rotational fission
https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stag978

Cloudy mornings and clear evenings on a gas giant exoplanet
https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adx5903

ASTRA Framework for Enhancing Human Performance and Safety in Analog Missions: A Pathway to Optimizing Analog Astronaut Selection
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2026-3000

Computational and Experimental Investigation of Nozzle Plume Impingement for Detumbling Orbital Debris
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/1.A36421

May 22, 2026 Updates

The Search for Technosignatures: a Review of Possibilities
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.21093

False negatives in the search for extraterrestrial life
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-026-02863-0

Cloudy mornings and clear evenings on a gas giant exoplanet
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adx5903

Methane on the Temperate Exo-Saturn TOI-199 b
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ae4fba

Kardashev’s Conundrum: Statistical Falsification of the Standard Kardashev Model and the Kardashev–Sagan–Nakamoto Resolution
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/403908256_titleKardashev’s_Conundrum_Statistical_Falsification_of_theStandard_Kardashev_Model_and_the_Kardashev–Sagan–Nakamoto_Resolution

Star-planet interaction in the Proxima system
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.22925

JWST-DECO: The Impact of Accretion on Mid-Infrared Observable Water in Planet-forming Disks
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.22926

Towards Doppler eclipse mapping of hot Jupiters. An observational perspective on WASP-33 b with SPIRou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.22931

TOI-7154b: A Close-in Massive Brown Dwarf in an Eccentric Orbit
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.23469

Modeling (Sub-)millimeter Scattering Properties of Fractal and Consolidated Porous Particles: Applications to Protoplanetary Disks
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.23680

New substellar candidates identified through deep learning in the F150 sample of the large-scale SHINE direct imaging survey
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.23700

A Wavelet-Integrated Search Pipeline for Narrowband Technosignatures in FAST Observations of 33 Exoplanet Systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.23739

The Inward Transition: Computational Optimization and the Fermi Paradox
https://www.academia.edu/146191620/The_Inward_Transition_Computational_Optimization_and_the_Fermi_Paradox

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

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