Interstellar Updates

A Review of Exoplanet Detection Telescopes: Performance Design and Technology Optimization
https://www.mdpi.com/2304-6732/12/3/199

Quantification of broadband chromatic drifts in Fabry–Pérot resonators for exoplanet science
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-025-02486-x

HD 206893 B at High Spectral Resolution with the Keck Planet Imager and Characterizer
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/adad70

Bioverse: Giant Magellan Telescope and Extremely Large Telescope Direct Imaging and High-resolution Spectroscopy Assessment—Surveying Exo-Earth O2 and Testing the Habitable Zone Oxygen Hypothesis
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/adb02f

The Viral Revelation: Interstellar Memetic Contagion, the Great Filter, and the Fate of Ideological Resistance in the Age of Instantaneous Communication
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/389319415_The_Viral_Revelation_Interstellar_Memetic_Contagion_the_Great_Filter_and_the_Fate_of_Ideological_Resistance_in_the_Age_of_Instantaneous_Communication

Utilizing Machine Learning to Predict Host Stars and the Key Elemental Abundances of Small Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.17563

The Super-Puff WASP-193b is On A Well-Aligned Orbit
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.17610

Photonic Lightsails: Fast and Stable Propulsion for Interstellar Travel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.17828

Near-instantaneous Atmospheric Retrievals and Model Comparison with FASTER
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.18045

Atmospheric escape from exoplanets: recent observations and theoretical models
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.18124

We Can Spread Our Genetic Material
https://www.aob.rs/en/publishing-en/doi/conferences-papers-and-proceedings/771-2024-01-10-69646-aob104p113

30 years after warp drives were proposed, we still can’t make the math work
https://www.space.com/space-exploration/tech/30-years-after-warp-drives-were-proposed-we-still-cant-make-the-math-work

Remote Detection of Red Edge Spectral Characteristics in Floating Aquatic Vegetation
https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2024.0127

Microlensing events indicate that super-Earth exoplanets are common in Jupiter-like orbits
https://zenodo.org/records/14852776

Highly reflective white clouds on the western dayside of an exo-Neptune
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-025-02488-9

Oceans under the light of moribund stars
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-025-02476-z

Terrestrial planet formation during giant planet formation and giant planet migration – I. The first five million years
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/02/aa52394-24/aa52394-24.html

TESS Hunt for Young and Maturing Exoplanets (THYME). XII. A Young Mini-Neptune on the Upper Edge of the Radius Valley in the Hyades Cluster
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ada26a

Initial Thermal States of Super-Earth Exoplanets and Implications for Early Dynamos
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2024JE008550

Fusion Propulsion Constraints Required by Robust Exoplanet Exploration
https://nstopenresearch.org/articles/3-9/v1

TOI-6324b: An Earth-Mass Ultra-Short-Period Planet Transiting a Nearby M Dwarf
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.16087

TESSELLATE: Piecing Together the Variable Sky With TESS
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.16905

A JWST Panchromatic Thermal Emission Spectrum of the Warm Neptune Archetype GJ 436b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.17418

Molecular Cloud Biology
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.16615

Optical Propulsion and Levitation of Metajets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.17334

The Future of Sex in a Type III Civilization
https://philpapers.org/rec/MALTFO-26

Three Laws for the Application of Artificial Intelligence as a Future Tool in the Search for Other Intelligences in the Cosmos
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/
389089663_Three_Laws_for_the_Application_of_Artificial_Intelligence_as_a_Future_Tool_in_the_Search_for_Other_Intelligences_in_the_Cosmos

Evidence for a sub-jovian planet in the young TWA7 disk
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.15081

The MSG model for cloudy sub-stellar atmospheres — A grid of self-consistent sub-stellar atmosphere models with microphysical cloud formation
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/02/aa51562-24/aa51562-24.html

Exoplanet may be the most volcanic world ever seen
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S026240792500301X

Chemistry of NH2CH2CH2OH and Its Related Species in the Interstellar Medium
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4365/ada89a

Cryogenic Quantum Intelligence and the Dyson Shell Hypothesis: A New Model for Post-Biological Civilizations
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/389031112_Cryogenic_Quantum_Intelligence_and_the_Dyson_Shell_Hypothesis_A_New_Model_for_Post-Biological_Civilizations

Beyond the No-Communication Theorem: The Possibility of Quantum Entanglement as a Detectable Signal for Post-Biological Intelligence
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/389026615_Beyond_the_No-Communication_Theorem_The_Possibility_of_Quantum_Entanglement_as_a_Detectable_Signal_for_Post-Biological_Intelligence

Quantum SETI Initiative: Democratizing Access to Quantum Anomalies
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/389031140_Quantum_SETI_Initiative_Democratizing_Access_to_Quantum_Anomalies

Astronomical image denoising by self-supervised deep learning and restoration processes
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-025-02484-z

The compositional diversity of rocky exoplanets around K-dwarf stars
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/02/aa51070-24/aa51070-24.html

Habitable Zone and Atmosphere Retention Distance (HaZARD) – Stellar-evolution-dependent loss models of secondary atmospheres
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/02/aa52998-24/aa52998-24.html

The PLATO field selection process – II. Characterization of LOPS2, the first long-pointing field
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/02/aa52325-24/aa52325-24.html

Evidence for Variable Accretion onto PDS 70 c and Implications for Protoplanet Detections
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.14024

Three Years of High-Contrast Imaging of the PDS 70 b and c Exoplanets at Hα with MagAO-X: Evidence of Strong Protoplanet Hα Variability and Circumplanetary Dust
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.14038

TOI-512: Super-Earth transiting a K-type star discovered by TESS and ESPRESSO
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.14472

Enceladus and Jupiter as exoplanets: The opposition surge effect
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/02/aa51115-24/aa51115-24.html

CHEXANET: A novel approach to fast-tracking disequilibrium chemistry calculations for exoplanets using neural networks
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/staf297/8024428

LensNet: Enhancing Real-time Microlensing Event Discovery with Recurrent Neural Networks in the Korea Microlensing Telescope Network
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ada4b5

Introduction to magnetic star-planet interactions
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.13262

Examining the Potential for Methyl Halide Accumulation and Detectability in Possible Hycean-Type Atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.13856

Positive-Energy Warp Drive in a De Sitter Universe
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.13153