Warped Space-time to Help WFIRST Find Exoplanets
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/warped-space-time-to-help-wfirst-find-exoplanets
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March 27, 2020 updates
Future space telescopes may probe Titan-like exoplanets
https://www.space.com/titan-like-exoplanets-future-space-telescopes.html
New mission would provide a road map in the search for alien atmospheres
https://www.colorado.edu/today/2020/03/26/new-mission-would-provide-road-map-search-alien-atmospheres
Exoplanets in the Antarctic Sky. IV. Dual-band Photometry of Variables Found by the CSTAR-II Commissioning Survey at the North Sky
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab7449
Why is it so Cold in Here?: Explaining the Cold Temperatures Retrieved from Transmission Spectra of Exoplanet Atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.11548
Transit Duration Variations in Multi-Planet Systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.11590
Earth-size planet formation in the habitable zone of circumbinary stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.11682
Habitability of polar regions in tidally locked extrasolar planet near the M-Dwarf stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.11732
The SOPHIE search for northern extrasolar planets. XVI. HD 158259: A compact planetary system in a near-3:2 mean motion resonance chain
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.13296
Effects of the general relativistic spin precessions on the habitability of rogue planets orbiting supermassive black holes
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.01518
March 26, 2020 updates
Exocomets: A spectroscopic survey
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.11084
An information theoretic framework for classifying exoplanetary system architectures
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.11098
Giants eating giants: Mass loss and giant planets modifying the luminosity of the Tip of the Giant Branch
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.11499
March 25, 2020 updates
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
March 24, 2020 updates
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