A Titan mission using the Direct Fusion Drive
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0094576520307475
Climate Diversity in the Solar-Like Habitable Zone due to Varying Background Gas Pressure
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.02355
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December 31, 2020 updates
Guide star catalog generation of star sensors for interstellar navigation
https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/journals/Journal-of-Astronomical-Telescopes-Instruments-and-Systems/volume-6/issue-4/044006/Guide-star-catalog-generation-of-star-sensors-for-interstellar-navigation/10.1117/1.JATIS.6.4.044006.short
The Self Indication Assumption for the Assessment of the Earliest Window and the Nearest Extraterrestrial Civilization and Overall landscape Analysis for All Possible Detection Scenarios
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/346959872_The_Self_Indication_Assumption_for_the_Assessment_of_the_Earliest_Window_and_the_Nearest_Extraterrestrial_Civilization_and_Overall_landscape_Analysis_for_All_Possible_Detection_Scenarios
Physical Parameters of the Multiplanet Systems HD 106315 and GJ 9827
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/abca39
December 30, 2020 updates
Migration of Hot Jupiters Induced by Atmosphere Outflow
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S1063772920120069
Origin of Life
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/9780470015902.a0029235
December 29, 2020 updates
TOI-257b (HD 19916b): A Warm sub-Saturn Orbiting an Evolved F-type Star
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/staa3960/6054535
Host star metallicity of directly imaged wide-orbit planets: implications for planet formation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.13694
Contrast and Temperature Dependence of Multi-Epoch High-Resolution Cross-Correlation Exoplanet Spectroscopy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.14068
Model Optimization for Deep Space Exploration via Simulators and Deep Learning
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.14092
Are extrasolar Einstein’s spinning tops habitable?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.14245
December 25, 2020 updates
High burial efficiency is required to explain mass balance in Earth’s early carbon cycle
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2020GB006707
Finding exoplanets in the habitable zone with light echoes
https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/conference-proceedings-of-spie/11448/2559345/Finding-exoplanets-in-the-habitable-zone-with-light-echoes/10.1117/12.2559345.short
Close stellar encounters kicking planets out of habitable zone in various stellar environments
https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.10595
Rendezvous Mission for Interstellar Objects Using a Solar Sail-based Statite Concept
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.12935
Three-dimensional continuum radiative transfer of polarized radiation in exoplanetary atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.12992