Interstellar Updates

The impact of stellar migration and gas giants on Galactic habitability
https://zenodo.org/records/18739434

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

NIRPS tightens the mass estimate of GJ 3090 b and detects a planet near the stellar rotation period
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2026/02/aa56887-25/aa56887-25.html

A dichotomy of the mass–metallicity relation of exoplanetary atmospheres demarcated by their birthplace
https://academic.oup.com/pasj/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/pasj/psaf157/8494910

The MIRI Excesses Around Degenerates (MEAD) Survey. II. A Probable Planet Detected via IR Excess around WD 0644+025
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ae3c0e

Bayesian Analysis for Remote Biosignature Identification on exoEarths (BARBIE). IV. Analyzing CO2 Detections in the Near-IR to Determine the Long-wavelength Cutoff for the Habitable Worlds Observatory Coronagraph
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ae3c81

Interstellar and Exoplanetary Management, A Theoretical Framework for Extraterrestrial Governance
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/401041572_Interstellar_and_Exoplanetary_Management_A_Theoretical_Framework_for_Extraterrestrial_Governance

Topography-Induced Stationary Waves and the Onset of Nightside Warming on Rocky Planets around M-dwarf Stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20155

The Orbital Eccentricity–Radius Distribution for Warm, Single Planets in TESS
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20015

LRG-BEASTS: Detection of sodium and evidence for water absorption in the hot Saturn HAT-P-44
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.19986

Tempawral: A Time-Resolved Retrieval Framework for Variable Brown Dwarfs and Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.18984

POSEIDON I: The Dynamical Origins of Transiting Neptunes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.18553

Periodic Wobble of the Post-Perihelion Jet Structure Around 3I/ATLAS
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.18512

Exo Skryer: A JAX-accelerated sub-stellar atmospheric retrieval framework
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.19687

JWST COMPASS: Insights into the Systematic Noise Properties of NIRSpec/G395H from a Uniform Reanalysis of Seven Transmission Spectra
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ae3de9

Identifying Exoplanets with Deep Learning VI. Enhancing neural network mitigation of stellar activity RV signals with additional metrics
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.17760

Inhomogeneous magnetic coupling in exoplanets: the stop & go of WASP-18 b’s atmospheric flows
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.18101

The GAPS Programme at the TNG: LXX. TOI-5734b: A hot sub-Neptune orbiting a relatively young K dwarf with an Earth-like density
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.18108

The Dispersed Matter Planet Project Sample – Detection limits, Occurrence Rates and New Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.18207

PDRs4All XXI. JWST-NIRCam Photometric properties of protoplanetary disks in the Orion Nebula Cluster
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.16262

Atmospheric Variety of Ocean Planets – a One-Dimensional Radiative-Convective Equilibrium Model
https://academic.oup.com/ptep/advance-article/doi/10.1093/ptep/ptag033/8488769

Xenomusicology
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/organised-sound/article/xenomusicology/97B09A763778B27E586754EC4EBC5249

Brain displacement and nonlinear deformation following human spaceflight
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2505682122

A Gamma Distribution Framework for Modeling Life’s Emergence and Intelligence Across the Universe
https://bis-space.com/shop/product/jbis-078-11-0374/

Longitudinal brain-age predictions comprising long-duration spaceflight missions
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41526-026-00575-3

A Warm Massive Pair of Planets around TOI-1232 Revealed with Transit-timing Variations and Doppler Spectroscopy
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ae2312

Inferring Exoplanet Parameters from Transit Timing Variations Using LSTM Networks
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/PSJ/ae3e86

Formation of Water-rich Giant Planet Satellites at Decretion Disk Ice Lines
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/PSJ/ae336a

Observational evidence for a possible link between PAH emission and dust trap locations in protoplanetary disks
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2026/02/aa53113-24/aa53113-24.html

Glycolaldehyde and ethanol toward the L1157 outflow: Resolved images and constraints on glycolaldehyde formation
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2026/02/aa56132-25/aa56132-25.html

Photoevaporation can reproduce extended H₂ emission from protoplanetary disks imaged by JWST/MIRI-MRS
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2026/02/aa56740-25/aa56740-25.html

Coordinated space-and ground-based monitoring of accretion bursts in a protoplanetary disc: The orbital and accretion properties of DQ Tau
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2026/02/aa57425-25/aa57425-25.html

Self-gravity in thin protoplanetary discs: I. The smoothing-length approximation versus the exact self-gravity Kernel
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2026/02/aa55989-25/aa55989-25.html

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://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2026/02/aa57262-25/aa57262-25.html

On Eccentric Protoplanetary Disks I — How Eccentric are Planet-Perturbed Disks?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.16769

Using EUV driven external photoevaporation to test viscous evolution of protoplanetary discs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.16801

Observational Signatures of Circumstellar Gas Tori Formed by Planetary Mass-Loss from Close-In Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.16816

A Collective Trigger for Widespread Planetesimal Formation Revealed by Accretion Ages
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.17367

Analytical modeling of helium absorption signals of isothermal atmospheric escape
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.17408

PDRs4All XXI. JWST-NIRCam Photometric properties of protoplanetary disks in the Orion Nebula Cluster
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.16262

Shock-induced nucleation of nanophase Fe-Ni alloy and its implications for interstellar iron reservoirs
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/chemistry/articles/10.3389/fchem.2026.1774797/full

Encyclopedia of Astrophysics
https://www.sciencedirect.com/referencework/9780443214400/encyclopedia-of-astrophysics

Global abiotic sulfur cycling on earth-like terrestrial planets
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S001910352600076X

From interplanetary to interstellar: Current status of exploration using space sails and required developments
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0094576526001347

RNA–peptide–DNA together from the beginning
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41589-026-02154-9

A universal brown dwarf desert formed between planets and stars
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2524764123?url_ver=Z39.88-2003&rfr_id=ori%3Arid%3Acrossref.org&rfr_dat=cr_pub++0pubmed

Autonomous Artificial Intelligence for Extreme Radiation Space Missions
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/1.I011710

The Limits of Science Are Not the Limits of Reality: A Testable Hypothesis on Subsurface Life in Planetary Interiors
https://zenodo.org/records/18684255

Molecular diagnostics for the mid-infrared emission of planet-forming disks. Carbon and oxygen elemental abundances
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.16030

Self-gravity in thin protoplanetary discs: I. The smoothing-length approximation versus the exact self-gravity Kernel
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2026/02/aa55989-25/aa55989-25.html

Photoevaporation can reproduce extended H2 emission from protoplanetary disks imaged by JWST/MIRI-MRS
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2026/02/aa56740-25/aa56740-25.html

Metal Pipe: A Broadly Applicable Stellar Abundance Pipeline Using Isochronal Parameters
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ae3c0b

Swift Heavy‐Ion‐Driven Chemistry in CO:CO2 Astrophysical Ice Analogs: Part I – Experimental data
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0273117726002486

Machine learning exploration of binding energy distributions of H2O at astrochemically relevant dust grain surfaces
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.11050v1

Upper atmosphere dynamics and drivers of volatiles loss from terrestrial-type (exo)planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.15507

Searching for Extragalactic Exoplanets: A Survey of the Sagittarius Dwarf Galaxy Stream with TESS
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.15105

TESS planets in known radial velocity cold Jupiter systems: Hot super Earth occurrence is enhanced by cold Jupiters
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.11017

Two warm sub-Saturn mass planets identified from the TESS Full Frame Images
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.16646

Paving the Road to the Habitable Worlds Observatory with High-resolution Imaging. I. New and Archival Speckle Observations of Potential HWO Target Stars
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ae2fe7

Keck Observations in the INfrared of Taurus and ρ Oph Exoplanets And Ultracool dwarfs (KOINTREAU) II: Two Young Bound Companions to Ophiuchus Stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.10198

Precise measurement of WASP-31 b’s Rossiter-McLaughlin effect and characterization of the planet transmission spectra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.15501

Next-generation Improvements in Giant-exoplanet Evolutionary and Structural Models
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ae3a85

The bulk metal content of WASP-80 b from joint interior-atmosphere retrievals
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2026/02/aa56519-25/aa56519-25.html

Development of a C/H/O/N/S chemical network: Experimental benchmark, application to exoplanets, and identification of key C/S coupling pathways
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2026/02/aa55595-25/aa55595-25.html

Tracing Pebble Drift History in Two Protoplanetary Disks with CO Enhancement
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ae353d/meta

The Solar Neighborhood. LIII. M Dwarf Twin Binaries—One in Five Twin Sibling Pairs Are Mismatched in Activity and/or Rotation
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ae34ad

Solar Hegemony: M Dwarfs Are Unlikely to Host Observers Such As Ourselves
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ae3c80

Fluid shifts are main drivers for microgravity simulation-induced immune-physiological changes: findings from the VIVALDI studies
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41526-025-00555-z

Cognitive Astrobiology
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/proceedings-of-the-international-astronomical-union/article/cognitive-astrobiology/64B93279C7F1303E7DF34A0DDDD516C5

Biological Experiments in Space: From Microgravity to Molecular Insights
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12217-026-10240-9

The Jevons Filter: Why Civilizations May Fail Before Reaching Type I Status
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6090866

Theoretical perspective on synthetic man-made life: Learning from the origin of life
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/qub2.22