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The Zoologist’s Guide to the Galaxy: What Animals on Earth Reveal About Aliens–and Ourselves
https://www.amazon.com/Zoologists-Guide-Galaxy-Aliens-Ourselves/dp/1984881965
Constraints on Sub-Neptune Planet Candidate KOI-972.01 via Joint Variability/Gravity-darkening Analysis
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/PSJ/abdb2e
Finding Signs of Life in Transit: High-resolution Transmission Spectra of Earth-like Planets around FGKM Host Stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.12011
On the stellar clustering and architecture of planetary systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.12346
The Chemical link between stars and their rocky planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.12444
OGLE-2018-BLG-1428Lb: a Jupiter-mass planet beyond the snow line of a dwarf star
https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.11463
Mass and density of the transiting hot and rocky super-Earth LHS 1478 b (TOI-1640 b)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.11640
Oxygen as a control over 2.4 billion years of Earth’s atmospheric evolution
https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.11675
Cloud property trends in hot and ultra-hot giant gas planets (WASP-43b, WASP-103b, WASP-121b, HAT-P-7b, and WASP-18b)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.11688
The rotational and divergent components of atmospheric circulation on tidally locked planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.11760
Are There Transit Timing Variations for the Exoplanet Qatar-1b?
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/abd4d8
The TESS–Keck Survey. IV. A Retrograde, Polar Orbit for the Ultra-low-density, Hot Super-Neptune WASP-107b
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/abd177
A Multiwavelength Look at the GJ 9827 System: No Evidence of Extended Atmospheres in GJ 9827b and d from HST and CARMENES Data
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/abdb2f
Photochemical modelling of atmospheric oxygen levels confirms two stable states
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012821X21000777
Effects of the IMF direction on atmospheric escape from a Mars‐like planet under weak intrinsic magnetic field conditions
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2020JA028485
Automated identification of transiting exoplanet candidates in NASA Transiting Exoplanets Survey Satellite (TESS) data with machine learning methods
https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.10326
On Opening the Gate to the Stars and the Drake Equation
https://www.scirp.org/journal/paperinformation.aspx?paperid=106947
Evolution of Earth-like extended exospheres orbiting solar-like stars
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stab492/6146082
Which Jurisdiction for Private In-space Assembled Autonomous Platforms?
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0265964621000059
The Physics of Falling Raindrops in Diverse Planetary Atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.09570
