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What is the Oxygen Isotope Composition of Venus? The Scientific Case for Sample Return from Earth’s “Sister” Planet
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11214-020-00669-8
What horticulture and space exploration can learn from each other: The Mission to mars initiative in the Netherlands
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0094576520302988
World ships: Feasibility and Rationale
https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.04100
Dynamic Orbital Slingshot for Rendezvous with Interstellar Objects
https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/niac/2020_Phase_I_Phase_II/Dynamic_Orbital_Slingshot/
Deceleration of Interstellar Spacecraft Utilizing Antimatter
https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/niac/2020_Phase_I_Phase_II/Deceleration_of_Interstellar_Spacecraft_Utilizing_Antimatter/
Biosignature Surveys to Exoplanet Yields and Beyond
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/staa1284/5834560
Design considerations for relativistic laser sails
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0094576520302836
Simulating the Multi-Epoch Direct Detection Technique to Isolate the Thermal Emission of the Non-Transiting Hot Jupiter HD187123B
https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.03020
Modeling Radial Velocity Data of Resonant Planets to Infer Migration Histories
https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.03034
The PHOENIX Exoplanet Retrieval Algorithm and Using H− Opacity as a Probe in Ultra-hot Jupiters
https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.03056
Oxidation of the Interiors of Carbide Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.03175
The GAPS Programme at TNG — XXIII. HD 164922 d: a close-in super-Earth discovered with HARPS-N in a system with a long-period Saturn mass companion
https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.03368
Cosmic Anarchy and Its Consequences
https://medium.com/@KevinKohlerFM/cosmic-anarchy-and-its-consequences-b1a557b1a2e3
Determining the nature of motion around Jupiter-like exoplanets using the elliptic restricted three-body problem
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0032063319304313
Photometry and Performance of SPECULOOS-South
https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.02423
UV Exoplanet Transmission Spectral Features as Probes of Metals and Rainout
https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.02528
Alkaline Exospheres of Exoplanet Systems: Evaporative Transmission Spectra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.02536
The Hubble PanCET program: Transit and Eclipse Spectroscopy of the Strongly Irradiated Giant Exoplanet WASP-76b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.02568
Why do warm Neptunes present nonzero eccentricity?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.02700
A Practical Guide for Selecting and Utilizing Pulsars for Galactic Navigation
http://dses.science/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/19-A-Practical-Guide-for-Selecting-and-Utilizing-Pulsars-for-Galactic-Navigation.pdf
The Italian National Project of Astrobiology—Life in Space—Origin, Presence, Persistence of Life in Space, from Molecules to Extremophiles
https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2020.2247
A Coupled Analysis of Atmospheric Mass Loss and Tidal Evolution in XUV Irradiated Exoplanets: the TRAPPIST-1 Case Study
https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.01740
Consistently Simulating a Wide Range of Atmospheric Scenarios for K2-18b with a Flexible Radiative Transfer Module
https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.02114
Increasing the raw contrast of VLT/SPHERE with the dark hole technique. I. Simulations and validation on the internal source
https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.02179
ARES I: WASP-76 b, A Tale of Two HST Spectra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.02374
Spaceship Earth
https://www.sundance.org/projects/spaceship-earth
Laboratory studies on the viability of life in H2-dominated exoplanet atmospheres
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-020-1069-4
Visible and near-infrared observations of interstellar comet 2I/Borisov with the 10.4-m GTC and the 3.6-m TNG telescopes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.00786
The occurrence rate of exoplanets orbiting ultracool dwarfs as probed by K2
https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.01440
Stellar impact on disequilibrium chemistry and on observed spectra of hot Jupiter atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.01470
Microlensed Radio Emission from Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.01542
Testing Earth-like atmospheric evolution on exo-Earths through oxygen absorption: required sample sizes and the advantage of age-based target selection
https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.01587
Original Research By Young Twinkle Students (ORBYTS): Ephemeris Refinement of Transiting Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.01684
HAZMAT VI: The Evolution of Extreme Ultraviolet Radiation Emitted from Early M Star
https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.01687
