Interstellar Updates

Searching for Life-As-We-Don’t-Know-It: Mission-relevant Application of Assembly Theory for Exoplanet Life Detection
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.08780

The ocean worlds science case for the Pollux spectropolarimeter
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.11112

Atmospheric Escape Rates from Mars – If it Orbited an Old M-Dwarf Star
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.11561

Masses of Potentially Habitable Planets Characterized by the Habitable Worlds Observatory
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.11146

Cold giant discoveries from a joint radial-velocity and astrometry framework
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.11202

Islands of Electromagnetic Tranquility in Our Galactic core and Little Red Dots that Shelter Molecules and Prebiotic Chemistry
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17484

Stars in the neighborhood of Sagittarius A* follow primary centric framework
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11038-026-09582-6

Searching for Exotrojans in Pulsar Systems
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ae4317

Carbonated Chondrites during Giant Impacts
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/PSJ/ae4488

Probing the photoabsorption features and electronic excited states of propylene oxide: an experimental and theoretical study
https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2026/cp/d6cp00031b

Bottom-up Formation of Phenol (C6H5OH) in Interstellar Analog Ices of Acetylene and Water Exposed to Ionizing Radiation
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ae48fa

Lasting biosignatures for 165 million years in lichens detected by multiple spectroscopies and the implication for extreme environmental and exoplanetary life exploring
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10509-026-04558-4

The Multifaceted Potential of Fungi in Extraterrestrial Environments: Exploring Mushrooms in Space
https://rsnz.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/nzb2.70066

Oxygenated False Positive Biosignatures in Mars-like Exoplanet Atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.11017

Evaluating the spatial intra-pixel sensitivity variations and influence based on space observation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.10355

Effects of stellar X-ray photoevaporation on planetesimal formation via the streaming instability
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2026/03/aa57793-25/aa57793-25.html

Image classification for optical resident space object surveys with machine learning
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0094576526001839

A test of the Dedalus software for exoplanet atmospheric dynamics
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.10076

Detection of periodic transit timing variations in warm sub-Saturn HD 332231 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.10497

Identifying and Measuring Satellite Streaks in DECam Images
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.10790

At the stellar noise frontier: a transit survey of 121 TESS M3-M6 dwarfs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.10247

A stellar prominence eruption associated with a white-light flare on an M dwarf observed simultaneously by LAMOST and TESS
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2026/03/aa57269-25/aa57269-25.html

TOI-4616 b: a benchmark Earth-sized planet transiting a nearby M4 dwarf
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.10905

Gaia-GIC-1: An Evolving Catastrophic Planetesimal Collision Candidate
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.10952

Interstellar Object 3I/ATLAS Observed from Mars by China’s Tianwen-1 Spacecraft
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.10350

Exo–IPM Scattering as a Hidden Gatekeeper of Narrowband Technosignatures
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ae3d33

Extraterrestrial Hydrometeological Phenomena and Their Communicative Implications Interpretive Journalism Perspective
https://zenodo.org/records/18875181

A broad perspective on Galactic life
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-026-02803-y

Eating planets makes you younger: The magnetic dynamo rejuvenation of GJ 504 by planetary engulfment
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2026/03/aa59144-26/aa59144-26.html

True masses using radial velocity data with HIPPARCOS and Gaia astrometry
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2026/03/aa56735-25/aa56735-25.html

Precomputed aerosol extinction, scattering, and asymmetry grids for scalable atmospheric retrievals
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2026/03/aa58469-25/aa58469-25.html

Giant Outer Transiting Exoplanet Mass (GOT’EM) survey: VII. TOI-6041: A multi-planet system including a warm Neptune exhibiting strong transit-timing variations
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2026/03/aa56700-25/aa56700-25.html

Time-Domain Photometry and Activity Evolution of Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS with BHTOM
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.01383

A second visit to Eps Ind Ab with JWST: new photometry confirms ammonia and suggests thick clouds in the exoplanet atmosphere of the closest super-Jupiter
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.08780

The Influence of Clouds and Deuterium-Burning on Brown Dwarf Habitable Zones
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.09068

Worlds Next Door. IV. Mapping the Late Stages of Giant Planet Evolution with a Precise Dynamical Mass and Luminosity for ε Ind Ab
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.08787

Two Low Mass-Ratio Microlensing Planets and Two Types of Central-Resonant Degeneracy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.09045

Mass Production of 2023 KMTNet Microlensing Planets I: Low Mass Ratio
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.09239

Atmospheric Collapse and Habitability on Tidally-Locked Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.09260

The Key to Unlocking Exoplanet Biosignatures: a UK-led IR Spectrograph for the Habitable Worlds Observatory Coronagraph
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.09321

From planetesimals to planets with N-body simulations in the giant-planet formation region
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.09351

Data reduction method for OPTICAM multiband time series of transiting exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.09922

Hunting for methanol in the water rich, planet forming disk around HL Tau
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.04322

SCG-HMH (Consolidated concepts) What I think the future should look like
https://zenodo.org/records/18916931

The SCG-HMH Giga factory Concept
https://zenodo.org/records/18925333

Jam-packed star system is most compact of its kind ever found
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00667-w

On Perihelion Predictions for Visiting Interstellar Cometary Objects
https://bis-space.com/shop/product/jbis-078-11-0389/

Project Icarus: The Pegasus Spacecraft Concept Design ICF Propulsion for an Interstellar Rendezvous Mission _ Part A
https://bis-space.com/shop/product/jbis-078-12-0402/

Project Icarus: The Pegasus Spacecraft Concept Design ICF Propulsion for an Interstellar Rendezvous Mission _ Part B
https://bis-space.com/shop/product/jbis-078-12-0422/

Universal energy limits of radiation belts in planetary and brown dwarf magnetospheric systems
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aea4945

CH3OH and HCN in Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Mapped with the ALMA Atacama Compact Array: Distinct Outgassing Behaviors and a Remarkably High CH3OH/HCN Production Rate Ratio
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ae433b

Dyson spheres on H-R diagram
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.23270

Estimation of the tidal heating in the TRAPPIST-1 planets: Influence of the internal structure
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2026/03/aa54529-25/aa54529-25.html

The GAPS programme at TNG: LXXI. A sub-Neptune suitable for atmospheric characterization in a multiplanet and mutually inclined system orbiting the bright K dwarf TOI-5789 (HIP 99452)
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2026/03/aa57662-25/aa57662-25.html

Predicting Gaia astrometry’s ability to constrain the populations of circumbinary planets
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stag450/8507228

Heat Reveals What Clouds Conceal: Global Carbon and Longitudinally Asymmetric Chemistry on LTT 9779 b
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ae4494

Limits On the Posteclipse Emission Spectrum of HD 80606 b From High-resolution Spectroscopy
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ae45a7

HD 164604 c: A Second Giant Planet on a 15 Yr Orbit and Constraints on the Planet–Planet Mutual Inclination
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ae4490

Dynamics of Planetary Rings under Thermal Forces
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ae4746

Nucleus and Postperihelion Activity of Interstellar Object 3I/ATLAS Observed by the Hubble Space Telescope
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ae471c

Three Saturn-mass Microlensing Planets Identified through Signals from Peripheral-caustic Perturbations
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1538-3873/ae477c

Hydrocarbon complexity and photochemical shielding of prebiotic feedstock molecules in exoplanet atmospheres
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0019103526000989

Planetary systems under the effect of multiple flybys in the galactic bulge
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S003206332600022X

Isotopic Evidence for a Cold and Distant Origin of the Interstellar Object 3I/ATLAS
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.06911

NASA’s Pandora SmallSat Mission: Simulated Modeling and Retrieval of Near-Infrared Exoplanet Transmission Spectra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.04488

Exoplanet Synchronization in the Habitable Zone: Learning from Venus’ Retrograde Rotation
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ae43e4

Implications of the Pessimistic Lower Limit on the Drake Equation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.02372

A Direct View of the Chemical Properties of Water from Another Planetary System: Water D/H in 3I/ATLAS
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.07026

High nitrogen and carbon isotopic ratios in the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.07187

Broadband SETI: a New Strategy To Find Nearby Alien Civilizations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.07333

Forecasting Catastrophe: Constraints on the Fomalhaut Main Belt Planetesimal Population from Observed Collisional Remnants
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.07376

Dust distribution in circumstellar disks harboring multi-planet systems. II. Super-thermal mass planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.07711

Post-perihelion Coma Composition of the Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS from Optical Spectroscopy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.07718

Is the high-energy environment of K2-18b special?
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2026/03/aa57601-25/aa57601-25.html

TOI-3288 b and TOI-4666 b: Two gas giants transiting low-mass stars characterised by NIRPS
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2026/03/contents/contents.html

A Study of Stability and Quintessence Polytropic Matter with Thin Shell Wormholes in Exponential Gravity
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0550321326000866

A Narrowband Technosignature Search toward the Hycean Candidate K2-18 b Using the VLA and MeerKAT
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ae448e

Predictions of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Galactic Exoplanet Survey. IV. Lens Mass and Distance Measurements
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ae43e6

MANGOS II: Five new giant planets orbiting low-mass stars
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stag448/8509368?searchresult=1

Exocomets of β Pictoris II: Two dynamical families of exocomets simulated with REBOUND
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.05600

Global Abiotic Sulfur Cycling on Earth-like Terrestrial Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.06124

Star-based Navigation in the Outer Solar System
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.06247