Interstellar Updates

A young progenitor for the most common planetary systems in the Galaxy
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09840-z

Demographics of Close-In TESS Exoplanets Orbiting FGK Main-sequence Stars
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stag022/8416408

Determining the Detectability of H2O with Photometric Observations Using Bayesian Analysis for Remote Biosignature Identification on exo-Earths (BARBIE)
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ae29b1

Estimation of the tidal heating in the TRAPPIST-1 planets. Influence of the internal structure
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.03408

Disc fragmentation. II. Ejection of low mass Free Floating Planets from growing binary systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.03820

The uncertainty in water mass fraction of wet planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.03932

Formation of multi-planetary systems via pebble accretion in externally photoevaporating discs in stellar clusters
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.03963

Two-source terrestrial planet formation with a sweeping secular resonance
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.04032

Secular Excitation of Polar Neptune Orbits in Pure Disk-Planet Systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.04140

New census of sun’s neighbors reveals best potential real estate for life
https://phys.org/news/2026-01-census-sun-neighbors-reveals-potential.html

ALMA devours cosmic ‘hamburger,’ reveals potential for giant planet formation
https://phys.org/news/2026-01-alma-devours-cosmic-hamburger-reveals.html

No TiO detected in the hot-Neptune-desert planet LTT-9779 b in reflected light at high spectral resolution
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2026/01/aa57240-25/aa57240-25.html

Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS: Evidence for Galactic Cosmic-Ray Processing
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ae2fff

Helium Atmospheres May Hide in Current Exoplanet Analysis Frameworks
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ae2f5c

Towards a global model for planet formation in layered MHD wind-driven discs: A population synthesis approach to investigate the impact of low viscosity and accretion layer thickness
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.02479

Catching 3I/ATLAS Using a Solar Oberth
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.02533

Dearth of Photosynthetically Active Radiation Suggests No Complex Life on Late M-Star Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.02548

Where does the simplified Stellar Contamination Model fail in Exoplanet Transmission Spectroscopy?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.02621

Quantifying the Contamination of TESS Ecliptic-Plane Light Curves by Minor Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.02637

TOI-4495: A Pair of Aligned, Near-Resonant Sub-Neptunes that Likely Experienced Overstable Migration
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.02665

Avi Loeb Says Interstellar Object 3I/ATLAS Is “Most Likely Natural” As It Heads Away From Earth
https://www.iflscience.com/avi-loeb-says-interstellar-object-3iatlas-is-most-likely-natural-as-it-heads-away-from-earth-81981

Superluminal Physics: Beyond Speed of Light Limit Hypothesis and Tunnelling Time
https://philarchive.org/rec/SMASPB

Dynamic Interaction of 2I/Borisov with a Structured Solar Flow: Observational Evidence from Geometric and Temporal Signatures
https://zenodo.org/records/18145275

Where We Have Gone Before – On the Role of Perceived Collective Continuity and the Support of SETI, and L estimations in the Drake Equation
https://zenodo.org/records/18141271

Communicative Universals and the Limits of Language in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
https://zenodo.org/records/18112516

Preparing for Discoveries in the Search for Life
https://zenodo.org/records/18157486

Environmental Coherence in Exoplanet Science: Populations, Bias, and Rocky Atmospheres
https://zenodo.org/records/18143125

The Ongoing Search for Auroral Radio Emission from Exoplanets
https://zenodo.org/records/18100251

Preliminary Findings from the NASA Exoplanet Exploration Program’s Technosignature Survey
https://zenodo.org/records/18089622

Exoplanet Biosignature and Technosignature Complementarity
https://zenodo.org/records/18064766

Astrobiological Interesting Stars within 20 Parsecs of the Sun
https://zenodo.org/records/18157571

Who watches the watchers?
https://zenodo.org/records/18037540

Stellar Engines: Advanced Spacecraft Propulsion through Extreme Aerospace Engineering Design
https://link.springer.com/book/9783032180612

Interstellar Informatics: Visualizing Space Medicine Through Artificial Intelligence
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-032-06520-9_8

Energetics of star–planet magnetic interactions: Novel insights from 3D modelling
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2026/01/aa56212-25/aa56212-25.html

The Diversity of Cold Worlds: Age and Characterization of the Exoplanet COCONUTS-2 b
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ae230f

No Turnover Found in Giant-Planet Occurrence Within 3 au Around Low-mass Stars
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ae317a

Speeding Up the GUIBRUSH® retrieval code for modelling exoplanetary atmospheres
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2213133725001283

Observable Metal Pollution in Main-Sequence 0.5 to 1.4 M⊙ Range
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.00949

Exo-Geoscience Perspectives Beyond Habitability
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.01177

The MUSCLES Extension for Atmospheric Transmission Spectroscopy: Spectral energy distributions for 20 exoplanet host stars that JWST observed in Cycle 1
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.01628

Physical Vetting of the Ultra-Short-Period Sub-Earth TOI 864.01
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.02171

Hunting for “Oddballs” with Machine Learning: Detecting Anomalous Exoplanets Using a Deep-Learned Low-Dimensional Representation of Transit Spectra with Autoencoders
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.02324

Evidence for a Nonzero Eccentricity Superpuff Exoplanet WASP-107 b Using JWST Occultation Observation
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ae2ac8

A Next-generation Exoplanet Atmospheric Retrieval Framework NEXOTRANS for Emission Spectroscopy: New Constraints and Atmospheric Characterization of WASP-69 b Using JWST NIRCam and MIRI Observations
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ae1cc5

Variable X-Ray Emission of the Planet Hosting T Tauri Star CI Tau
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ae25e5

Orbital Eccentricities Suggest a Gradual Transition from Giant Planets to Brown Dwarfs
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ae1fd7

On the use of polarized thermal emission to constrain cloud grain size and temperature structure of sub-stellar objects
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/staf2190/8408442?searchresult=1

A free-floating-planet microlensing event caused by a Saturn-mass object
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.00057

Sub-Neptune Memories I: Implications of Inefficient Mantle Cooling and Silicate Rain
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.00059

KMT-2024-BLG-0816/OGLE-2024-BLG-0519 — A Microlensing Event with Candidate Free-Floating Planet Lens and Blended Light
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.00325

Molecular hydrogen controls the temperatures of flares on TRAPPIST-1
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.00386

The Persistent Thermal Anomalies in Rocky Worlds
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.00412

Evidence for a Nonzero Eccentricity Superpuff Exoplanet WASP-107 b Using JWST Occultation Observation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.00640

Photochemistry of interstellar ice forming Complex Organic Molecules
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.08413

Searching for extraterrestrial life advances terrestrial sustainability
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-67794-2

Using Science Fiction to Teach Astronomy and Astrobiology
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2025ASPC..539..120S/abstract

Hubble Reveals Complex Multi-scale Structure in the Edge-on Protoplanetary Disk IRAS 23077+6707
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ae247f

Observational evidence for a possible link between PAH emission and dust trap locations in protoplanetary disks
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.06935

Performance Calibration of the Wavefront Sensor’s EMCCD Detector for the Cool Planets Imaging Coronagraph Aboard CSST
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.20386

Giant Outer Transiting Exoplanet Mass (GOTEM) Survey. VII. TOI-6041: a multi-planet system including a warm Neptune exhibiting strong TTVs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.01911

Interstellar Informatics: Visualizing Space Medicine Through Artificial Intelligence
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-032-06520-9_8

Exoplanet Habitability Detector
https://journalijsra.com/node/2386

The Features of FI Sge Photometric Variability on Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite Observations
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/399171898_FEATURES_OF_FI_SGE_PHOTOMETRIC_VARIABILITY_ON_TRANSITING_EXOPLANET_SURVEY_SATELLITE_OBSERVATIONS

Computational study of phosphorus-bearing molecule adsorption on amorphous silica: energetics and infrared signatures with relevance for interstellar and terrestrial chemistry
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2210271X25005882

Exploring celestial classification: Astrophysical features-guided machine learning for spectral and morphological analysis
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2213133725001210

Models and observational predictions of dust traps in protoplanetary discs
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10509-025-04530-8

Water Vapor Emission at the Warm Cavity Wall of the HD 100546 Disk as Revealed by ALMA
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ae2868

No Turnover Found in Giant-Planet Occurrence Within 3 au Around Low-mass Stars
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ae317a

The Likelihood of Hosting Undetected Brown Dwarfs in the Solar Vicinity
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.24319

Seafloor Weathering and Stochastic Outgassing Unlikely to Significantly Shorten the Future Lifespan of Earth’s Terrestrial Biosphere
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.24538

A free-floating-planet microlensing event caused by a Saturn-mass object
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adv9266