Interstellar Updates

SIMTERFERE: An optical interferometry simulator for quantifying the coherent flux stability of VLTI/GRAVITY+
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2026/04/aa58691-25/aa58691-25.html

The asymmetric structure of the inner disc around HD 142527 A with VLTI/MATISSE
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2026/04/aa56795-25/aa56795-25.html

Discovery of planetary-mass binaries in the Lower Centaurus-Crux association
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2026/04/aa47673-23/aa47673-23.html

A simulation study of detecting exomoons using the Earth 2.0 (ET) mission
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2026/04/aa58332-25/aa58332-25.html

Turbulence destroys thermal lobes around Mars-sized planetary embryos
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2026/04/aa58842-26/aa58842-26.html

Hunting for methanol in the water-rich, planet-forming disk around HL Tau
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2026/04/aa58485-25/aa58485-25.html

Predictions of New Horizons’ Termination Shock Crossing
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0273117726005612

No Strong Associations between Eccentricity and Orbital Architecture in Kepler Compact Multis
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ae579e

Decoding Transit Variations: Disentangling Satellites from Planets through Numerical Modulation
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stag761/8662144

A seeing measurement device for the PoET solar telescope
https://academic.oup.com/rasti/advance-article/doi/10.1093/rasti/rzag028/8662576

The formation of circumbinary planets through disc fragmentation
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/548/3/stag476/8661676

Signature of iron line profile from a Kerr-like wormhole
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.22268

Coupled orbital and interior structure evolution of lava planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.18682

Toward Inferring the Surface Fluxes of Biosignature Gases on Rocky Exoplanets from Telescope Spectra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.21848

Planetary Exploration 3.0: A Roadmap for Software-Defined, Radically Adaptive Space Systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20910

Orbital evolution of highly eccentric bodies embedded in a ringed accretion disc
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.21136

MINDS: Intertwined evolution of dust and gas in large planet-forming disks. A diversity driven by halted pebble drift?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.21803

Spectral Kernel Dynamics for Planetary Surface Graphs: Distinction Dynamics and Topological Conservation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20887

Chaos Gated Tunneling Drives Molecular Reactivity in Astrophysical Environments
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.21005

Three-dimensional transport-induced chemistry on temperate sub-Neptune K2-18b, Part II: the combined effects of atmospheric dynamics and chemical reactions
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.07987

Stellar flare-driven evolution of primordial early exo-Earth atmospheres: Insights from a Young M Dwarf Flare model
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20325

Sub-Neptunes Show a Stronger Correlation with Cold Jupiters than Super-Earths Especially in Metal-rich Systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20203

Stability of Multiplanet Systems Through Hot Jupiter Destruction
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19918

A giant solution to the disk mass budget problem of planet formation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19917

Observational constraints on the chemical tracers of planet formation history
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2026/04/aa57546-25/aa57546-25.html

The Effect of Large-scale Magnetic Fluctuations on Energetic Particle Profiles across Interplanetary Shocks
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ae5523

A Test of Substellar Evolutionary Models with High-precision Ages from Asteroseismology and Gyrochronology for the Benchmark System HR 7672AB
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ae4bdb

A Postperihelion Constraint on the CO2/H2O Ratio of Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS from [O I] Forbidden Lines
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ae578d

Using Astrometry to Break Degeneracies in Stellar Surface Mapping
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.11737

Spectral Response of SPHEREx
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4365/ae522c

The SPHEREx Ices Investigation: An Overview
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ae53e0

Science from the In Situ Exploration of the Proxima Centauri System
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20182

Journey from construction to excellence: How operations management and scientific results power LAMOST forward astronomy
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42524-026-6902-8

Status and Prospect of Secondary Battery Technologies in Space Applications: Challenges and the Future
https://chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/batt.70288

Synthetic biology-driven microbial protein factories for space
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S295061662600015X

Behavioral micro-foundations for the space commons: A policy toolkit
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0048733326001022

Molecular Evolution of H2O:O2 Ices at Different Temperatures in Simulated Space Environments. II. Evolution of Reaction Pathways
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ae579d

JWST Edge-on Disk Ice (JEDIce): Program Overview and Ice Survey Results
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ae5961

Ice as a Photochemical Shield: Adsorption Energetics and Spectroscopic Modulation of Interstellar Thiocyanates HCSCN and HCSCCH in TMC-1
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.17536

ALMA Observations of Acetone in Hot Cores
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19472

The multi-planet system TOI-5624: Four transiting sub-Neptunes with an outer companion revealed by transit-timing variations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.15035

Epistemic Pluralism & Astrobiology
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10838-025-09760-6

Exoplanets: The Search for Earth’s Twin
https://link.springer.com/book/9783032226839

Core-Powered Mass-Loss of the Primary Atmospheres of Mini-Neptunes: Influence of Water Content in the Planet Interior and Evolution of the Host Star
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S0038094626600095

Euclid Space Warps citizen science project helps hunt for strong gravitational lenses
https://phys.org/news/2026-04-euclid-space-warps-citizen-science.html

Proton Irradiation of Primitive Atmospheres of Young Exoplanets and Early Earth: N2O Greenhouse Warming and Prebiotic Synthesis
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ae5491

Thin H2-dominated Atmospheres as Signposts of Magmatic Outgassing on Tidally Heated Terrestrial Exoplanets
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/PSJ/ae53e3

Carbon Cycle Imbalances on Arid Terrestrial Planets with Implications for Venus
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.16846

Characterizing Earth analogs may require a moderate or high-resolution spectrograph
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.17554

JWST Exoplanetary Worlds and Elemental Survey (JEWELS) II: Condensation Temperature Trends and Galactic Chemical Evolution in JWST Planet-Hosting Stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.18115

Impact of Cold Jupiter Scattering on the Mean-Motion Resonance of Inner Small Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.18252

Rapid and Predictive Planet Population Synthesis Model (RAPPS) I. Upgraded model and resulting synthetic populations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.18273

Sensitivity of Dry Lava Planet Atmospheric Emission Spectra to Changes in Lava Compositions
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.18301

The T16 Planet Hunt: 10,000 New Planet Candidates from TESS Cycle 1 and the Confirmation of a Hot Jupiter Around TIC 183374187
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.18579

Technique-agnostic exoplanet demography for the Roman era — I. Testing a demography retrieval framework using simulated Kepler-like transit datasets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24401