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.Β  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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May 18th 2026 updates

The Maturity Hypothesis: Dimensional Transcendence and the Resolution of the Fermi Paradox
https://www.academia.edu/145908334/The_Maturity_Hypothesis_Dimensional_Transcendence_and_the_Resolution_of_the_Fermi_Paradox_Research_Edition_

Eccentric Stellar-mass Binary Black Holes: Population, Detectability, and Waveform Analysis in the LISA and LIGO Era
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2605.15265

The PARADIGM Project II: Characterising Nuclear and Diffuse Radio Components in Local U/LIRGs
https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stag929

May 15, 2026 Updates

Coupled Photochemical-Climate Modeling of Plausible Tenuous Outgassed Atmospheres on the TRAPPIST-1 Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.14101

Observation of spontaneous N-bearing PAH formation using ion trap: a new formation pathway in the interstellar medium
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.14424

Where Do Hot Jupiters Come From? Revisiting Tidal Disruption and Ejection in High-Eccentricity Migration
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.14433

Formulation of Personalized, Fortified Beverage Nanoemulsions for Space Exploration with Omega-3 Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsfoodscitech.5c01291

May 14, 2026 Updates

Coupling magma-ocean and atmospheres in spectral retrievals of sub-Neptunes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.08752

Chemical signatures of planetary systems in their host stars. Near-infrared spectroscopy of four planet-hosting wide binaries
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.11095

Detection and Characterization of the Temperate Super-Earth Ross 318 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.11123

The Maturity Hypothesis: Dimensional Transcendence and the Resolution of the Fermi Paradox
https://www.academia.edu/145908334/The_Maturity_Hypothesis_Dimensional_Transcendence_and_the_Resolution_of_the_Fermi_Paradox_Research_Edition_

The Activated Bridge: Dynamically-Induced Traversable Wormholes via Counter-Rotational Gravitomagnetic Shear
https://www.academia.edu/145733182/The_Activated_Bridge_Dynamically_Induced_Traversable_Wormholes_via_Counter_Rotational_Gravitomagnetic_Shear

May 13, 2026 Updates

Formation of stable exoplanetary systems around pulsars by capture: An exercise in computational classical mechanics
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.12591

π›Όπ›½π‘žth-mapping of planet-induced density wave damping in protoplanetary discs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.12607

The HAges Catalog: Stellar Ages for High Priority HWO Target Stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.12647

Extensions of Brown Hamiltonian-III. Applications to irregular satellites of giant planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.12864

Fizzy water ice in space: CO2 adsorption, binding energies and its fate in a protoplanetary disk
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.13308

Self-gravity in thin protoplanetary discs: 2. Numerical convergence solved and revealing the overestimation in mass of formed planets with softening
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.13461