Interstellar Updates

Cold vs. Hot Gas Accretion and Angular Momentum in FIRE Simulations: From Halo to Galaxy Scales
https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stag1117

HD 38973 b – a cold Saturn orbiting a Sun-like star
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/publications-of-the-astronomical-society-of-australia/article/hd-38973-b-a-cold-saturn-orbiting-a-sunlike-star/042357714256BCCE0987E6AA07D123C2

Super-earths and mini-neptunes follow different orbital period-eccentricity relations
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42275486/

Metal Oxide Clusters in Gas Giant Exoplanet Atmospheres
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2606.16787

Effects of Incomplete Accommodation on Intake Performances of Atmosphere-Breathing Electric Propulsion
https://doi.org/10.2514/1.J066856

Hydrogen and Helium Dissolution, Outgassing, and Loss in Evolving Sub-Neptune Magma Oceans: Examining Demographic Features and Radius Evolution
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.14646

Using Organoids to Unlock the Potential of Human Torpor for Spaceflight
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40778-026-00257-6 

Streamlined molecular farming of plant virus therapeutics for space flight and other low-resource environments
https://www.nature.com/articles/s44383-026-00030-y 

COUNTESS I: A Uniformly Vetted Catalog of Known and New Transiting Exoplanets in the TESS Northern Continuous Viewing Zone
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.13789 

A population view of transiting hot giant exoplanets: Tracing Fe and Ti chemistry with ESPRESSO and MAROON-X
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.14490 

Japan’s Possible Contributions for Coronagraph of the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.13440

Prospects for Astrobiology and Technosignature Searches with the Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.00574

The Cosmological Hart-Tipler Conjecture
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.04044

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

Substrate Flexibility and the Copernican Principle of Consciousness
https://faculty.ucr.edu/~eschwitz/SchwitzAbs/SubstrateFlexibility.htm

An early look at how gas giants shape small planet bulk compositions
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.12524

Connecting Polarization to Exoplanet Yield Calculations for HWO
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.12842

What’s the (RV) Point? A Enhancement in Super-Jupiters with Saturn-like Periods from a Critical Observation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.07505

Chemistry and Isotope Ratios of Substellar Atmospheres in the β Pictoris Young Moving Group and Vicinity
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.01012

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

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