Interstellar Updates

Planets Without Plate Tectonics and too Little Carbon Dioxide Could Mean that Technological Alien Life is Rare
https://www.europlanet.org/epsc-dps2025-planets-without-plate-tectonics-and-too-little-carbon-dioxide-could-mean-that-technological-alien-life-is-rare/

Winding motion of spirals in a gravitationally unstable protoplanetary disk
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-025-02639-y

The GAPS Programme at TNG – LXIX. The dayside of WASP-76 b revealed by GIANO-B, HARPS-N, and ESPRESSO: Evidence of 3D atmospheric effects
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/09/aa55702-25/aa55702-25.html

Impact of rotation on synthetic mass–radius relationships of two-layer rocky planets and water worlds
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/09/aa54116-25/aa54116-25.html

Quantifying thermal water dissociation in the dayside photosphere of WASP-121 b using NIRPS
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/09/aa53724-25/aa53724-25.html

Evolution of Stellar Activity and Habitable zone: I. Ultraviolet Emission of Dwarfs in Open Clusters and Field Stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18559

Searching for GEMS: TOI-5349b is a Saturn-like planet orbiting a metal-rich early M-dwarf
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19492

Deep learning for exoplanet detection and characterization by direct imaging at high contrast
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20310

21st-Century Astrobiology Missions Should Seek These High-Confidence Biosignatures
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02746

What do the fundamental constants of physics tell us about life?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09892

Is ozone a reliable proxy for molecular oxygen? – III. The impact of CH4 on the O2–O3 relationship for Earth-like atmospheres
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/09/aa56015-25/aa56015-25.html

Magnetohydrodynamic simulations preliminarily predict the habitability and radio emission of TRAPPIST-1e
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/09/aa55471-25/aa55471-25.html

Quantifying the Distribution of Europium in the Milky Way Disk: Its Connection to Planetary Habitability and the Source of the r-process
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/adfb4d

A Comprehensive Analysis of Three Microlensing Planet Candidates with the Planet/Binary Degeneracy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18345

A multi-object approach for studying exoplanet atmospheres using high-resolution spectrographs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18721

A Scatter of Light from a Polarized World
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19172

Exploring the Sub-Neptune Frontier with JWST
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19247

Surveying the stellar drivers of exoplanet evolution for the first time with the ESCAPE small explorer mission
https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/conference-proceedings-of-spie/13625/136250B/Surveying-the-stellar-drivers-of-exoplanet-evolution-for-the-first/10.1117/12.3063555.short

Intercepting 3I/ATLAS at Its Closest Approach to Jupiter with the Juno Spacecraft
https://www.mdpi.com/2226-4310/12/9/851

A Model for Massless Gravity: The Maths that makes Interstellar Drives possible.
https://zenodo.org/records/17176483

The Hot Neptune Initiative (HONEI) – II. TOI-5795 b: A hot super-Neptune orbiting a metal-poor star
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/09/aa56081-25/aa56081-25.html

RAVEN: RAnking and Validation of ExoplaNets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17645

Identifying close-in Jupiters that arrived via disk migration: Evidence of primordial alignment, preference of nearby companions and hint of runaway migration
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16322

Polarized Signatures of Variable Worlds: Modeling Heterogeneous Habitable Earth- and Early Mars-like (Exo)planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16338

Evaluation of the magnetic field of hot Jupiters within the geometric approach
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16565

Direct Imaging for the Debris Disk around ε Eridani with the Cool-Planet Imaging Coronagraph
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16761

Identifying rocky planets and water worlds among sub-Neptune-sized exoplanets with the Habitable Worlds Observatory
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16798

An Initial Assessment of the Hanle Echelle Spectrograph for Exoplanet Atmosphere Studies
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17142

Radial Velocity Strategies for the Orbital Refinement of Exoplanet Direct Imaging Targets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17169

A Thick Volatile Atmosphere on the Ultra-Hot Super-Earth TOI-561 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17231

Improving radial velocity precision with CARMENES-PLUS:An upgrade of the near-infrared spectrograph cooling system
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17966

A Decade of Transit-Timing Measurements Confirm Resonance in the K2-19 System
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18031

Ionospheric Electron Heat Flow Modulates Planetary Ambipolar Electric Fields
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10218

Chronothetic and aspectual diachrony in Astrobiology: the inchoativity of Life
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/395479527_Chronothetic_and_aspectual_diachrony_in_Astrobiology_the_inchoativity_of_Life

Quantum Stellar Batteries (QSBs): A Theoretical Framework for Stellar‐Scale Energy Storage
https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202508.2028/v2

Is ozone a reliable proxy for molecular oxygen? III. The impact of CH4 on the O2–O3 relationship for Earth-like atmospheres
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/09/aa56015-25/aa56015-25.html

X-ray photodesorption of complex organic molecules in protoplanetary disks II. Formic acid, HCOOH
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/09/aa55420-25/aa55420-25.html

Chemical transformation of CO in evolving protoplanetary discs across stellar masses: A route to C-rich inner regions
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/09/aa55195-25/aa55195-25.html

Properties of Free-floating Planets Ejected through Planet–Planet Scattering
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/adf4e2

Vertical Structure of Interstellar Dust in the Milky Way
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/staf1585/8258955?searchresult=1

Astrometric exomoon detection by means of optical interferometry
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15304

Untapped: Veloce Detects Calcium in the Atmosphere of WASP-189b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15306

THYME XIII: Two young Neptunes orbiting a 75-Myr star in the Alpha Persei Cluster
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15313

Dynamical Analysis of the HD 169142 Planet-Forming Disk: Twelve Years of High-Contrast Polarimetry
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15323

Detection and characterisation of a 106-day transiting Jupiter : TOI-2449 b / NGTS-36 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15424

ATREIDES I. Embarking on a trek across the exo-Neptunian landscape with the TOI-421 system
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15746

ExoIris: fast exoplanet transmission spectroscopy in Python
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15913

JWST-TST DREAMS: Sulfur dioxide in the atmosphere of the Neptune-mass planet HAT-P-26 b from NIRSpec G395H transmission spectroscopy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16082

Binary-lens Microlensing Degeneracy: Impact on Planetary Sensitivity and Mass-ratio Function
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16191

Triad for Space Civilization: Launch, Robotics, and Photonic Railways
https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1177/21680256251378715

Direct Detection of Biosignature Gasses Using Corrosion-Resistant QIT-MS Sensor for Planetary Exploration
https://www.mdpi.com/2673-4125/5/2/17

The Temporal Organization of Life: Investigating the Conceptual, Ethical and Cosmological Implications of Astrobiology
https://link.springer.com/book/9783031813573

Insights from early life in the 3.45-Ga Kitty’s Gap Chert for the search for elusive life in the Universe
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-025-02661-0

Mechanochemical Reactivity of Ribonucleosides Mediated by Inorganic Species: Implications for Extraterrestrial Organic Matter Interpretation
https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/15/3/1363

Diversity in planetary architectures from pebble accretion: Water delivery to the habitable zone with pebble snow
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14101

Cosmic dust as a prerequisite for the formation of complex organic molecules in space?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12967

ATREIDES I. Embarking on a trek across the exo-Neptunian landscape with the TOI-421 system
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/09/aa54856-25/aa54856-25.html

A misaligned protostellar disk fed by gas streamers in a barred spiral-like massive dense core
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.ady6953

Scientific Progress, Astrobiology and the Pursuit of Knowledge
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/philosophy-of-science/article/scientific-progress-astrobiology-and-the-pursuit-of-knowledge/0295665D3636BEE92E668FE9DA7D2857

Thomism and the Natural Sciences
https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/thomism-and-the-natural-sciences/326B00E9FDAF28D8FDBE18995B4F4837

Metal-enriched Atmospheres in Warm (Super- and Sub-) Neptunes Induced by Extreme Atmospheric Escape
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/add736

Who speaks for extraterrestrial ecosystems?: Why ET should have standing
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0265964625000463

Exoplanet shows signs of having a habitable atmosphere
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0262407925015386

Mapping the SO2 Shoreline in Gas Giant Exoplanets
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/395649047_Mapping_the_SO2_Shoreline_in_Gas_Giant_Exoplanets

New Orbital Constraints for YSES 1 b and HR 2562 B from High-Precision Astrometry and Planetary Radial Velocities
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14321

KID Detector Readout Electronics Development for Habitable Worlds Observatory
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14363

Sibling Sub-Neptunes Around Sibling M Dwarfs: TOI-521 and TOI-912
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14782

The evolution of complex organic molecules during star formation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15126

Measuring the Two-Dimensional Thermal Structures of Protoplanetary Disks
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15196

A carbon-rich disk surrounding a planetary-mass companion
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15209