Interstellar Updates

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

How Interstellar Objects Similar to 3I/ATLAS Could Jump-Start Planet Formation Around Infant Stars
https://www.europlanet.org/epsc-dps2025-how-interstellar-objects-similar-to-3i-atlas-could-jump-start-planet-formation-around-infant-stars/

X-SHYNE: X-Shooter spectra of young exoplanet analogs – II. Presentation and analysis of the full library
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/09/aa54986-25/aa54986-25.html

Discovery of an icy and nitrogen-rich extrasolar planetesimal
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/543/1/223/8255944

Do Outer Giants Inflate Neptune-sized Planets? An Architecture-Dependent Mass–Radius Relation
https://academic.oup.com/mnrasl/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnrasl/slaf098/8256834

Temporal evolution of the third interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS: Spin, color, spectra, and dust activity
https://www.aanda.org/component/article?access=doi&doi=10.1051/0004-6361/202556717

Planet Earth in reflected and polarized light – III. Modeling and analysis of a decade-long catalog of Earthshine observations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13415

Astrometric Methods for Detecting Exomoons Orbiting Imaged Exoplanets: Prospects for Detecting Moons Orbiting a Giant Planet in α Centauri A’s Habitable Zone
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13513

ARDENT: A Python package for fast dynamical detection limits with radial velocities
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13521

Volatile-bearing mineral atmospheres of hot rocky exoplanets as probes of interior state and composition
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13610

Investigating aerosols as a reconciliation mechanism for K2-18 b JWST MIRI and NIRISS/NIRSpec observations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13932

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

Transit Timing Variations in HIP 41378: CHEOPS and TESS confirm a non-transiting sixth planet in the system
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14156

Possible Evidence for the Presence of Volatiles on the Warm Super-Earth TOI-270 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14224

Interstellar objects: from theory to observations
https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EPSC-DPS2025/session/55013

Life Detection Knowledge Base
https://lifedetectionforum.com/ldkb

The SPACE Program – I. The featureless spectrum of HD 86226 c challenges sub-Neptune atmosphere trends
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/09/aa54916-25/aa54916-25.html

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

X-SHYNE: X-Shooter spectra of young exoplanet analogs – II. Presentation and analysis of the full library
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/09/aa54986-25/aa54986-25.html

BOWIE-ALIGN: Weak spectral features in KELT-7b’s JWST NIRSpec/G395H transmission spectrum imply a high cloud deck or a low-metallicity atmosphere
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/staf1535/8255897

Searching for Planets Orbiting epsilon Eridani with JWST/NIRCam
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/adf727

Possible Evidence for the Presence of Volatiles on the Warm Super-Earth TOI-270 b
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/adfc6a

Born Dry or Born Wet? A Palette of Water Growth Histories in TRAPPIST-1 Analogs and Compact Planetary Systems
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/adf282

The “Analogs for VENus’ GEologically Recent Surfaces” (AVENGERS) Initiative: Using Terrestrial Analogs to Study Recent Volcano-Tectonic Activity on Venus and Inform the Characterization of Terrestrial Exoplanets
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2024JE008675

Do Outer Giants Inflate Neptune-sized Planets? An Architecture-Dependent Mass-Radius Relation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12328

No Giant Planets in the Eta Cassiopeiae System: Dynamical Implications of a Wide Binary Companion
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12334

Multiple Giant Impacts and Chemical Equilibria: An Integrated Approach to Rocky Planet Formation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12713

TSD: An inverse problem approach for recovering the exoplanetary atmosphere transmission spectrum from high-resolution spectroscopy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12737

Massive Retrograde Moons May Survive During Different Hot Jupiters’ Migration Scenario
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13263

Redefining interiors and envelopes: hydrogen-silicate miscibility and its consequences for the structure and evolution of sub-Neptunes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13320

Characteristics of Exoplanets in Transiting Systems HD 189733 and HD 209458: Considering the Four-Parameter Law of Star Darkening within the Framework of a Three-Dimensional Model of Its Atmosphere
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S1063772925701963

Characteristics of Super-Earths and Mini-Neptunes
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S1063772925701926

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

How an Interstellar Interloper Spurred Astronomers into Action
https://eos.org/features/how-an-interstellar-interloper-spurred-astronomers-into-action

The Photochemical Plausibility of Warm Exo-Titans Orbiting M-Dwarf Stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10611

LEO-Vetter: Fully Automated Flux- and Pixel-Level Vetting of TESS Planet Candidates to Support Occurrence Rates
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10619

Hydrocarbon Hazes on Temperate sub-Neptune K2-18b supported by data from the James Webb Space Telescope
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10947

The Polar Orbit of TOI-2374 b, a Planet in the Neptunian Ridge
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11565

Evidence for a gap in the envelope mass fraction of sub-Saturns
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12120

Nuclear Fusion Propulsion Systems For Deep Space Travel Architecture: A Review
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15361055.2025.2533077

Life in Space: Astrobiology for Nonscientists
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-64639-3

Constraints on the possible atmospheres on TRAPPIST-1 b: insights from 3D climate modeling
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/09/aa54243-25/aa54243-25.html

The SPACE Program I. The featureless spectrum of HD 86226 c challenges sub-Neptune atmosphere trends
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/09/aa54916-25/aa54916-25.html

Speeding up slows down: A potential paradox of innovation curtailment in nomadic societies engaged in interstellar relativistic traffic
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0094576525005958

Asymptotic relative dynamics for spacecraft on close hyperbolic trajectories
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0094576525005612

Collision induced absorption in HITRAN2024: Enhanced and improved data for atmospheric and planetary studies
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022407325002936

The Watery Atmosphere of HD 209458 b Revealed by Joint K- and L-band High-resolution Spectroscopy
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/adfb71

Precise Constraints on the Energy Budget of WASP-121 b from its JWST NIRISS/SOSS Phase Curve
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09760

The New Generation Planetary Population Synthesis (NGPPS). VII. Statistical comparison with the HARPS/Coralie survey
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09762

Initial conditions for tidal synchronisation of a planet by its moon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09858

A four-planet system orbiting the old thick disk star TOI-1203
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10136