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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June 11, 2026 Updates

The geoarchaeology of planetary exploration: new approaches to space heritage preservation
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gto.70020

From Flybys to Sample Return: A Review of Space Probes and Robotic Sampling Technologies for Small Bodies
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/rob.70246

Tested and improved atmospheric model for millimeter and submillimeter astronomical observatories
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2026/06/aa59370-26/aa59370-26.html

Calibration of an Analog-to-Digital Conversion Nonlinearity in JWST/NIRISS
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.11983

Machine-learning clustering of close-in exoplanet populations: links to pebble accretion
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.11737

The influence of the fractal dimension on dust evolution in protoplanetary disks
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2026/06/aa58375-25/aa58375-25.html

Atmospheric asymmetries in WASP-121 b revealed by rotational transits detected with JWST
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1038/s41550-026-02887-6

Atmospheric Dynamics of Asymmetrically Magnetized Hot Jupiter
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.12119

COUGS-DESI: A Catalog of Unusual Galaxies with polar Structures in the DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2026/06/aa58534-25/aa58534-25.html

 

June 10, 2026 Updates

HabSim: Modeling Disruptions, Propagation, Detection and Repair in Deep Space Habitats
https://www.mdpi.com/2673-3951/7/3/109

Planetary Aerobiomes in Dust- and Aerosol-Dominated Extraterrestrial Environments
https://www.mdpi.com/2673-8007/6/6/66

Some Thoughts on the Future of Technosignature Searches: Constraining the Fermi Paradox
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.00463

The Ohio SETI Program – The Last Decades
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.11102

Towards Instrument-Agnostic Exoplanet Candidate Prioritization
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.07769

Exploring Exoplanets with Interferometry
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.10108

Exploring the Orbital Stability of Large, Lightweight Mirrors around Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.10140

Quantifying isochrone-based age uncertainties for rapidly rotating A-type stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.09485

June 09 2026 updates

Mapping Interstellar Ice Inventory toward Class 0 Protostars in Star-forming Region Orion A with JWST Data
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2606.09776

Star Formation Drives Production of Low Energy Cosmic Rays
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2606.09651

Modelling Galactic neutrino emission: contributions from massive star clusters and interstellar cosmic rays
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2606.09604

Star-planet magnetic interactions in photoevaporating exoplanets: enhanced power due to atmospheric escape
https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stag1081

June 5, 2026 Updates

Ultraviolet Radiation Effects on the Optical Properties of Water-Dominated Exoplanet Hazes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.06691

Where Not to Look: A Parametric Avoidance Model for SETI Target Selection
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.06692

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

Tidal Disruption of Blanets in Kerr Spacetime
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.06884

MOSES — The MONET Star and Exoplanet Spectrograph
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.06898

A New Scaling Law for Non-Dipolar Magnetic Fields in Rapidly Rotating Stars and Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.07484

Detection of a four-carbon sugar in interstellar space
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.03313

Exploring TRAPPIST-1 Climate States with an Energy Balance Model
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.06964

Contribution of interstellar objects to local dark matter density
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.04801

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