Interstellar Updates

Space as a spectroscopic laboratory: High-resolution spectroscopy of the [13C II] hyperfine structure with SOFIA/upGREAT
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2026/06/aa59546-26/aa59546-26.html

Mapping X-ray conditions in the habitable zones of exoplanet host stars with SRG/eROSITA
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2026/06/aa59220-26/aa59220-26.html

Interstellar X-Ray Absorption and Scattering
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ae6b8a

JWST-TST High Contrast: First Direct Spectroscopy of GJ 504 b reveals Clouds and Possible Metal Enrichment
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.19228

Three dimensional temporal evolution of photochemical haze in exoplanet atmospheres I. Description and test application to HD 189733b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.19056

Joint Rossiter-McLaughlin Revolutions analysis of the multi-planetary system GJ 9827
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2026/06/aa57501-25/aa57501-25.html

Unraveling the Mystery of the Peculiar and Young Hot Jupiter CoRoT-2b II: Phase Resolved Emission Spectroscopy with VLT/CRIRES+ and Gemini-S/IGRINS
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.17304

Reflections of Life: Distinguishing Living from Nonliving Worlds with Complexity Metrics
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ae6b7b

Tardigrades as an Emerging Model Animal for Astrobiology Research: A Case Study
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-92-0038-2_13

Ants and Ant Colonies as Time-Resilient Distributed Intelligence: Implications for Human Civilization, Artificial Intelligence, and Interstellar Survival
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6138346

White Dwarf Stars are Photodamaging Environments for Earth-like Photosynthesis
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ae7c77

Revisiting the Greenhouse Effect of Nongreenhouse Gases in the Atmospheres of Earth-like Planets
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ae6b8b

Effect of tidal gravity and planetary rotation on the retrieved atmospheric abundances of close-in exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.18100

The BAGLE Python Package for Bayesian Analysis of Gravitational Lensing Events
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ae665b

Dynamical Stability and Habitability in the HD 20794 System
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1538-3873/ae7691

Detection of CO, H2O, and OH in WASP-18 b with JWST/NIRISS Using Direct-extracted Spectra and Cross Correlation
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ae736a

Cold vs. Hot Gas Accretion and Angular Momentum in FIRE Simulations: From Halo to Galaxy Scales
https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stag1117

HD 38973 b – a cold Saturn orbiting a Sun-like star
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/publications-of-the-astronomical-society-of-australia/article/hd-38973-b-a-cold-saturn-orbiting-a-sunlike-star/042357714256BCCE0987E6AA07D123C2

Super-earths and mini-neptunes follow different orbital period-eccentricity relations
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42275486/

Metal Oxide Clusters in Gas Giant Exoplanet Atmospheres
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2606.16787

Effects of Incomplete Accommodation on Intake Performances of Atmosphere-Breathing Electric Propulsion
https://doi.org/10.2514/1.J066856

Hydrogen and Helium Dissolution, Outgassing, and Loss in Evolving Sub-Neptune Magma Oceans: Examining Demographic Features and Radius Evolution
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.14646

Using Organoids to Unlock the Potential of Human Torpor for Spaceflight
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40778-026-00257-6 

Streamlined molecular farming of plant virus therapeutics for space flight and other low-resource environments
https://www.nature.com/articles/s44383-026-00030-y 

COUNTESS I: A Uniformly Vetted Catalog of Known and New Transiting Exoplanets in the TESS Northern Continuous Viewing Zone
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.13789 

A population view of transiting hot giant exoplanets: Tracing Fe and Ti chemistry with ESPRESSO and MAROON-X
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.14490 

Japan’s Possible Contributions for Coronagraph of the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.13440

Prospects for Astrobiology and Technosignature Searches with the Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.00574

The Cosmological Hart-Tipler Conjecture
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.04044

The mass of TOI-1883 b: A low density super-Neptune in the ridge regime transiting an early-M dwarf
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.06868

Substrate Flexibility and the Copernican Principle of Consciousness
https://faculty.ucr.edu/~eschwitz/SchwitzAbs/SubstrateFlexibility.htm

An early look at how gas giants shape small planet bulk compositions
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.12524

Connecting Polarization to Exoplanet Yield Calculations for HWO
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.12842

What’s the (RV) Point? A Enhancement in Super-Jupiters with Saturn-like Periods from a Critical Observation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.07505

Chemistry and Isotope Ratios of Substellar Atmospheres in the β Pictoris Young Moving Group and Vicinity
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.01012