Planetesimal rings as the cause of the Solar System’s planetary architecture
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-021-01557-z
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December 30, 2021 updates
Knocking on the Stars: The Philosophical Implications of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
http://clusty.ast.villanova.edu/aprsa/files/mortensen_final.pdf
A Review on Human Interplanetary Exploration Challenges
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2022-2585
The Economics of Interstellar Flight
https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.13911
Spin-orbit coupling for close-in planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.14335
Composition of super-Earths, super-Mercuries, and their host stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.14512
December 29, 2021 updates
Divinity academics research societal implications of astrobiology
https://www.divinity.cam.ac.uk/researchareas/newsandimpact/astrobiology
A Chorus Of Planets
https://www.ctinquiry.org/blog/2019/12/10/a-chorus-of-planets
Color Catalogue of Life in Ice: Surface Biosignatures on Icy Worlds
https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2021.0008
December 28, 2021 updates
About Teaching Students Materials Related to Deep Space Exploration
https://www.elibrary.ru/item.asp?id=47231961
Looking for Rings and Tides in Transiting Exoplanets
https://repositorio-aberto.up.pt/handle/10216/138548
TOI 560 : Two Transiting Planets Orbiting a K Dwarf Validated with iSHELL, PFS and HIRES RVs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.13448
Ellipsoidal equilibrium figure and Cassini states of rotating planets and satellites deformed by a tidal potential in the spatial case
https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.13767
December 27, 2021 Updates
Accreting protoplanets: Spectral signatures and magnitude of gas and dust extinction at H α
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/01/aa37494-20/aa37494-20.html
Surface Measurement of a Large Inflatable Reflector in Cryogenic Vacuum
https://www.mdpi.com/2304-6732/9/1/1/htm
Terrestrial planet formation from lost inner solar system material
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abj7601