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 8, 2026 Updates

Complex Organic Molecules in Protostars with ALMA Spectral Surveys (COMPASS) VI. Discovery of a class I methanol maser transition and its association with acetaldehyde
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2026/10/aa58734-25/aa58734-25.html

Tentative Detection of FeS toward Orion SrcI
https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.06346

Detection of escaping magnesium in the upper atmosphere of WASP-76b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.09128

Astrometric planet search around southern ultracool dwarfs: V. Discovery of the exoplanet candidate PALTA-1 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.09965

Searching for hot water world candidates with CHEOPS: II. A low-density super-Earth orbiting the K dwarf TOI-2211
https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.08922

 

October 7, 2026 Updates

The Potential Anaerobic Cultivation of Microbial Biomass for Astronaut Nutrition During Long-Term Space Flight
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC13608552/

Technological maturation of a Gigapixels Astrometry instrument for the Habitable World Observatory
https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.06188

SOPHIE and TESS characterization of fourteen TESS Objects of Interest: nine planetary systems and five low-mass stellar companions
https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.08584

A Technosignature Survey Of The Anti-Solar Point: The SETI Institute’s Largest-Ever Campaign With The Allen Telescope Array
https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.07065

October 1, 2026 Updates

The Astronomical Hub: A Unified Ecosystem for Modern Astronomical Research
https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.39287

Policy Analysis of Nuclear-Powered Propulsion for Asteroid Mining: Implications of Space Small Modular Reactors (S-SMRs)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2468896726001151

Project CERES: Nuclear Thermal Transportation and In-Situ Propellant Production A Foundational Architecture for Solar System Logistics
https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.40011

Space Journey Beyond Earth: Exploring the properties of exoplanets and multi-planetary systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.38449

TOI-6981 b: a transiting sub-Neptune at the water ice line
https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.37597

September 30, 2026 Updates

Toward extraterrestrial librarianship: Designing knowledge systems for human settlements in space
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S246889672600039X

Improved Constraints on the Surface of LHS 3844 b from its Mid-Infrared Spectrum
https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.37982

Constraining exoplanet population parameters with Kepler and simulation-based inference
https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.37960

Detection of fine-structured radio bursts during a superflare on EQ Peg
https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.37909

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