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Scientists discovered inexpensive method to make E-sail tether
https://en.ilmatieteenlaitos.fi/press-release/1264989483
The TESS-Keck Survey I: A Warm Sub-Saturn-Mass Planet and a Caution about Stray Light in TESS Cameras
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.10451
TESS spots a hot Jupiter with an inner transiting Neptune
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.10852
Extraterrestrials
https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/extraterrestrials
Extraterrestrial Languages
https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/extraterrestrial-languages
Stellar activity consequence on the retrieved transmission spectra through chromatic Rossiter-McLaughlin observations
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2020/03/aa37419-19/aa37419-19.html
Opportunities to Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence with the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.09639
Stellar wind effects on the atmospheres of close-in giants: a possible reduction in escape instead of increased erosion
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.10272
A remnant planetary core in the hot Neptunian desert
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.10314
The Magellan/PFS Exoplanet Search: A 55-day period dense Neptune transiting the bright (V=8.6) star HD 95338
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.10319
Utilizing Small Telescopes Operated by Citizen Scientists for Transiting Exoplanet Follow-up
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.09046
The subsurface habitability of small, icy exomoons
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.09231
Expectations for the confirmation of Proxima c from a long-term radial velocity follow-up
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.09305
Water and air consumption aboard interstellar arks
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.09286
The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs. Radial velocities and activity indicators from cross-correlation functions with weighted binary masks
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.07471
Tidal and general relativistic effects in rocky planet formation at the sub-stellar mass limit using N-body simulations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.07509
CHEOPS observations of TESS primary mission monotransits
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.07620
Nodal Precession in Closely Spaced Planet Pairs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.07835
HST/STIS transmission spectrum of the ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-76 b confirms the presence of sodium in its atmosphere
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.06424
Transformative Science from the Lunar Farside: Observations of the Dark Ages and Exoplanetary Systems at Low Radio Frequencies
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.06881
