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.  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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November 28, 2025 updates

Expanding frontiers: harnessing plant biology for space exploration and planetary sustainability
https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nph.70662

Physics of Life: Exploring Information as a Distinctive Feature of Living Systems
https://journals.aps.org/prxlife/abstract/10.1103/rsx4-8x5f

Extreme environmental tolerance and space survivability of the moss, Physcomitrium patens
https://www.cell.com/iscience/fulltext/S2589-0042(25)02088-7

Astrometric Detectability of Habitable Exoplanets: An Open-Source Framework Using Gaia DR3
https://zenodo.org/records/17745705

Improved Exoplanet Detection Through Data Augmentation and Machine Learning
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-96-9971-1_27

Large-amplitude variability driven by giant dust storms on a planetary-mass companion
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adv3324

Observation of an accreting planetary-mass companion with signs of disc–disc interaction in Orion
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/12/aa57137-25/aa57137-25.html

JWST/MIRI observations of the young TWA 27 system: Hydrocarbon disk chemistry, silicate clouds, and evidence of a circumplanetary disk
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/12/aa56296-25/aa56296-25.html

The Physics of Interstellar Travel
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/physics-of-interstellar-travel/69C23CDCF164E2C71A65497F299EE38F

The Surface and Interior Conditions of Temperate Sub-Neptune TOI-270 d
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/staf1969/8340351

Ross 458 C: Gas Giant or Brown Dwarf?
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ae0ad0

Prediscovery TESS Observations of Interstellar Object 3I/ATLAS
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ae1f91

A Large Sample of JWST/NIRSpec Brown Dwarfs: New Distant Discoveries
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4365/ae112e

Advancing Perovskite Solar Cell Reliability for Extreme Space Environments
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2095809925007350

Inducing Directed Solar Plasma Ejections for Interstellar Propulsion: A Theoretical Framework for Stellar-Scale Energy Harvesting
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/397984813_Inducing_Directed_Solar_Plasma_Ejections_for_Interstellar_Propulsion_A_Theoretical_Framework_for_Stellar-Scale_Energy_Harvesting

TriPoDPy: 1D Tri-Population size distributions for Dust evolution in protoplanetary disks
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.20764

Measuring Dust Masses of Protoplanetary Disks in Serpens and L1641/L1647 with ALMA
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.20817

CH3OH and HCN in Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Mapped with the ALMA Atacama Compact Array: Distinct Outgassing Behaviors and a Remarkably High CHOH/HCN Production Rate Ratio
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.20845

The Diversity of Cold Worlds: Age and Characterization of the Exoplanet COCONUTS-2b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.20923

Concurrent Accretion and Migration of Giant Planets in their Natal Disks with Consistent Accretion Torque (II): Parameter Survey and Condition for Outward Migration
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.21323

November 27, 2025 updates

Large-amplitude variability driven by giant dust storms on a planetary-mass companion
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adv3324

HST-COS Transit Spectroscopy of KELT-20b: First Detection of Excess Far-ultraviolet Absorption from an Ultrahot Jupiter
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ae169d

Enrichment of the Driving Metanarratives Shared between SETI and Space Sustainability through a Multispecies Lens
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0094576525008410

Current opinions and trends in the search for extrasolar photosynthesis
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1387647325000156

Tracking the Activity of the Interstellar Object 3I/ATLAS through its Perihelion
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.20810

CHOH and HCN in Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Mapped with the ALMA Atacama Compact Array: Distinct Outgassing Behaviors and a Remarkably High CHOH/HCN Production Rate Ratio
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.20845

The Diversity of Cold Worlds: Age and Characterization of the Exoplanet COCONUTS-2b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.20923

The FAST-SETI Milky Way Globular Cluster Survey I: A Pilot Multibeam On-the-Fly Search of Five Globular Clusters at L-Band
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.21085

Planet Migration in Protoplanetary Disks with Rims
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.21328

Quantifying the differences in transmission and emission spectra for hot irradiated gaseous exoplanet Atmospheres: A comparison of 1D and 3D modeling using JWST
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.21454

Transit Timing of the White Dwarf-Cold Jupiter System WD 1856+534
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.21611

November 26, 2025 updates

Boiling oceans and compressional tectonics on emerging ocean worlds
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-025-02713-5

FAS-XAI: Fuzzy and Explainable AI for Interpretable Vetting of Kepler Exoplanet Candidates
https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7390/13/23/3796

Estimating The Number of Intelligent Extraterrestrial Civilizations: A Probabilistic Approach to the Drake Equation
https://zenodo.org/records/17720863

20 GeV halo-like excess of the Galactic diffuse emission and implications for dark matter annihilation
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1475-7516/2025/11/080

The JWST Early Release Science Program for Direct Observations of Exoplanetary Systems. VI. Evidence for Radially Evolving Icy Grains in the HD 141569A Disk via NIRCam Coronagraphic Imaging
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ae0615

Modeling Atmospheric Ion Escape from Kepler-1649 b and c over Time
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ae1a65

Planetary Habitability Under the Light of a Rapidly Changing Star
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.19646

TOI-7510: A solar-analog system of three transiting giant planets near a Laplace resonance chain
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.20074

Exomoon search with VLTI/GRAVITY around the substellar companion HD 206893 B
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.20091

Simulating the Stellar Bycatch: Constraining the Prevalence of Extraterrestrial Transmitters within Radio SETI Surveys
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.20231

Projections of Earth’s Technosphere: Strategies for Observing Technosignatures on Terrestrial Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.20329

Diversity of low-mass planet atmospheres in the C-H-O-N-S-Cl system with interior dissolution, nonideality, and condensation: Application to TRAPPIST-1e and sub-Neptunes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00499

Measuring Cometary Nuclei Behind Bright Comae: PSF Delta Decomposition with Bicubic Resampling and an Application to Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS C/2025 N1
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.19467

November 25, 2025 updates

Hypothesis of Entropic-Temporal Coupling for Anomalous Interstellar Objects: An Application of the Finite and Consumable Time Theory (FCT/TTC)
https://zenodo.org/records/17704028

Modelling the Atmosphere of Young Exoplanet V1298 Tau b
https://zenodo.org/records/17692775

Dissecting the puzzle of tectonic lid regimes in terrestrial planets
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-65943-1

Regular variability of planet-hosting stars as a periodic environmental driver for prebiotic chemistry
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-astrobiology/article/regular-variability-of-planethosting-stars-as-a-periodic-environmental-driver-for-prebiotic-chemistry/306433A839D9860122130A4804082B2E

Revised Mass and Orbit of ε Eridani b: A 1 MJup Planet on a Near-circular Orbit
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ae0cbd

Evolution of Terrestrial Planetary Bodies and Implications for Habitability
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2025RG000902

Spectrophotometric evidence for a metal-bearing, carbonaceous, and pristine interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.19112

Evidence of 1:1 slope between rocky Super-Earths and their host stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.17717

Resonant structures in exozodiacal clouds created by exo-Earths in the habitable zone of late-type stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.17872

The Albedo Problem and Cloud Cover on Hot Jupiters
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.18497

A Smooth Transition from Giant Planets to Brown Dwarfs from the Radial Occurrence Distribution
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.18758

Numerical Non-Adiabatic Tidal Calculations with GYRE-tides: The WASP-12 Test Case
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.18769

November 24, 2025 Updates

Planet Habitability under Energy Balance and Resource Carrying Capacity
https://www.icck.org/article/abs/jer.2025.128588

Dust distribution in circumstellar disks harboring multi-planet systems: I. Sub-thermal mass planets
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/11/aa56463-25/aa56463-25.html

Detection of CO2, CO, and H2O in the atmosphere of the warm sub-Saturn HAT-P-12 b
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/11/aa50690-24/aa50690-24.html

Detection and characterisation of a 106-day transiting Jupiter: TOI-2449 b/NGTS-36 b
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/11/aa55168-25/aa55168-25.html

N2-broadening coefficients and their temperature exponents for ethylene lines: A semi-empirical approach for (exo)planetary studies
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022407325004200

On the transitional character and regularity of planetary abiogenesis
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0303264725002709

Detectability of Dust and Ion Tails of Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS by Europa Clipper
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ae2120

Evidence of Titanate Clouds in the Dayside Atmosphere of the Ultrahot Jupiter WASP-121b
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ae1c1c

Ever Elusive Exospheres: One Probable Detection and Two Nondetections of Hα Transits in Young Systems
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ae1504

The Surface and Interior Conditions of Temperate Sub-Neptune TOI-270 d
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/staf1969/8340351

Habitable from the start: How initial planetary formation conditions may create habitable worlds
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.16714

The Surface and Interior Conditions of Temperate Sub-Neptune TOI-270 d
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.16722

A Comprehensive Analysis of the Panchromatic Transmission Spectrum of the Hot-Saturn WASP-96 b: Nondetection of Haze, Possible Sodium Limb Asymmetry, Stellar Characterization, and Formation History
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.16771