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Life in the Universe
https://smartech.gatech.edu/handle/1853/59430
Geocentrism and the Astrobiological Context of the Human Condition
http://geopolicraticus.tumblr.com/post/172303464882/geocentrism-and-the-astrobiological-context-of-the
NASA reveals major delay for $8-billion Hubble successor
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-03863-5
Decrease in Hysteresis of Planetary Climate for Planets with Long Solar Days
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/aaa70f
New Assumptions to Guide SETI Research
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20180001925.pdf
The Relation Between Arrested Civilizations and Their Biospheres
http://geopolicraticus.tumblr.com/post/172215561112/the-relation-between-arrested-civilizations-and
OSIRIS-REx Encounters Earth: Signatures of a Habitable World
https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2018/pdf/1240.pdf
A comprehensive understanding of planet formation is required for assessing planetary habitability and for the search for life
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.08682
Atmospheric mass loss of extrasolar planets orbiting magnetically active host stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.08684
Understanding Stellar Contamination in Exoplanet Transmission Spectra as an Essential Step in Small Planet Characterization
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.08708
An accurate mass determination for Kepler-1655b, a moderately-irradiated world with a significant volatile envelope
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.08820
Formation of Terrestrial Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.08830
Criterion for the Onset of Chaos in Systems of Two Eccentric Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.08510
The WFIRST Exoplanet Microlensing Survey
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.08564
Classification of simulated radio signals using Wide Residual Networks for use in the search for extra-terrestrial intelligence
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.08624
Fingerprinting Non-Terran Biosignatures
https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/full/10.1089/ast.2017.1712
Organic Haze as a Biosignature in Anoxic Earth-like Atmospheres
https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2017.1666
The Effect of Varying Atmospheric Pressure upon Habitability and Biosignatures of Earth-like Planets
https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2016.1632
The Habitability of Proxima Centauri b: Environmental States and Observational Discriminants
https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2016.1589
Detection of the closest Jovian exoplanet in the Epsilon Indi triple system
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.08163
Gaian bottlenecks and planetary habitability maintained by evolving model biospheres: The ExoGaia model
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.08063
Clear and Cloudy Exoplanet Forecasts for JWST: Maps, Retrieved Composition and Constraints on Formation with MIRI and NIRCam
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.08173
Detection of Alpha Centauri at radio wavelengths: chromospheric emission and search for star-planet interaction
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.08338
A Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) toward the Galactic Anticenter with the Murchison Widefield Array
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/aab363
KELT-22Ab: A Massive Hot Jupiter Transiting a Near Solar Twin
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.07559
Optimal Target Stars in the Search for Life
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.07570
The Ice Cap Zone: A Unique Habitable Zone for Ocean Worlds
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.07717
The Origins Space Telescope: Towards An Understanding of Temperate Planetary Atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.07730
Transit Photometry as an Exoplanet Discovery Method
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.07867
White Paper: Exoplanetary Microlensing from the Ground in the 2020s
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.07921
Strategies for Constraining the Atmospheres of Temperate Terrestrial Planets with JWST
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.07983
First space mission dedicated to exoplanet atmospheres gets green light
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-03445-5
The Dinosaur in the Detail: High Order Harmonics in the Light Curves of Eccentric Planetary Systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.07078
On the Terminal Rotation Rates of Giant Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.07106
Additional Exoplanet Science Enabled by FINESSE
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.07163
Search for exoplanets around northern circumpolar stars III. long-period radial velocity variations in hd 18438 and hd 158996
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.07213
K2-231 b: A sub-Neptune exoplanet transiting a solar twin in Ruprecht 147
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.07430
Spin-orbital tidal dynamics and tidal heating in the TRAPPIST-1 multi-planet system
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.07453
