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Early Accretion of Large Amounts of Solids for Directly Imaged Exoplanets
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/adb42c
Planets larger than Neptune have elevated eccentricities
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2405295122
Decoding planetary surfaces by counting cracks
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2411738122
Positive Feedback: How a Synergy Between the Streaming Instability and Dust Coagulation Forms Planetesimals
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.03105
Suspended Animation, Gateway to a Second Life and Interstellar Travel
https://zenodo.org/records/14970066
GASTLI (GAS gianT modeL for Interiors)
https://zenodo.org/records/14968001
Ab Initio Quantum Dynamics as a Scalable Solution to the Exoplanet Opacity Challenge: A Case Study of CO2 in a Hydrogen Atmosphere
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/adb02e
How Habitable Are M Dwarf Exoplanets? Modeling Surface Conditions and Exploring the Role of Melanins in the Survival of Aspergillus niger Spores Under Exoplanet-Like Radiation
https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2024.0023
Water dissociation and rotational broadening in the atmosphere of KELT-20 b from high-resolution spectroscopy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.01946
The stochastic nature of migration of disc instability protoplanets in three-dimensional hydrodynamical and MHD simulations of fragmenting discs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.01973
Extension of the creep tide theory to exoplanet systems with high stellar obliquity. The dynamic tide of CoRoT-3b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.02193
No Robust Statistical Evidence for a Population of Water Worlds in a 2025 Sample of Planets Orbiting M Stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.02451
Planning Under Uncertainty with Unreliable Robotic Actuators
https://oaktrust.library.tamu.edu/items/e9898669-8319-4d34-87e9-a80e0c9b0168
The JWST Weather Report from the Isolated Exoplanet Analog SIMP 0136+0933: Pressure-dependent Variability Driven by Multiple Mechanisms
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ad9eaf
Biological, Equilibrium and Photochemical Signatures of C, N and S Isotopes in the Early Earth and Exoplanet Atmospheres
https://www.mdpi.com/2075-1729/15/3/398
Earth’s magnetic field and its relationship to the origin of life, evolution, and planetary habitability
https://academic.oup.com/nsr/advance-article/doi/10.1093/nsr/nwaf082/8051343
Statistical Reevaluation of the Ultra-short-period Planet Classification Boundary: Smaller Planets within 1 Day, Larger Period Ratios below 2 Days
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/adb487
Evidence for Primordial Alignment II: Insights from Stellar Obliquity Measurements for Hot Jupiters in Compact Multiplanet Systems
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad9dd5
Thermal Phase Curves in Hot Gas Giant Exoplanets Exhibit a Complex Dependence on Planetary Properties
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.00208
Formation of Ultra-short-period Planet in Hot Jupiter Systems: Application to WASP-47
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.00872
Quantified Estimation of Molecular Detections across Different Classes of Neptunian Atmospheres Using Cross-Correlation Spectroscopy: Prospects for Future Extremely Large Telescopes with High-Resolution Spectrographs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.01142
A Population Synthesis Study on the Formation of Cold Jupiters from Truncated Planetesimal Disks
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.01570
Gone with the wind: the outward migration of eccentric giant planets in windy disks
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.01745
Detecting Post-Biological and Interdimensional Civilizations: A New Framework Based on the Universal Law of Balance
https://philpapers.org/rec/MALDPA-7
Multibeam SETI Observations toward Nearby M dwarfs with FAST
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.20419
Simple molecules and complex chemistry in a protoplanetary disk: A JWST investigation of the highly inclined disk d216-0939
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.20472
JWST COMPASS: NIRSpec/G395H Transmission Observations of TOI-776 c, a 2 Rearth M Dwarf Planet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.20501
Revised Mass and Orbit of ε Eridani b: A 1 Jupiter-Mass Planet on a Near-Circular Orbit
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.20561
Space science & the space economy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.20922
Searching for GEMS: TOI-5688 A b, a Low-density Giant Orbiting a High-metallicity Early M-dwarf
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ada7ea
Energy needed to propel a tiny spacecraft to Proxima Centauri,and, an unstated assumption in Einstein’s 1905 paper
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.04331v1
Comment on work of Umrigar and Anderson “Energy needed to propel a tiny spacecraft to Proxima Centauri, and, an unstated assumption in Einstein’s 1905 paper”
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.15818
A closer look at LTT 9779b:The ESPRESSO endeavour to pierce the atmospheric veil
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/03/aa51044-24/aa51044-24.html
Intermediate-mass stars and the origin of the gas-giant planet-metallicity correlation
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/03/aa53328-24/aa53328-24.html
Exoplanet Ephemerides Change Observations (ExoEcho). I. Transit Timing Analysis of 37 Exoplanets Using HST/WFC3 Data
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ada95d
Habitability in 4D: Predicting the Climates of Earth Analogs across Rotation and Orbital Configurations
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ada3c8
Stellar Models Also Limit Exoplanet Atmosphere Studies in Emission
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.19585
Exploring the atmosphere of GJ 1132 b with CRIRES+
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.19932
High-contrast spectroscopy with the new VLT/ERIS instrument: Molecular maps and radial velocity of the gas giant AF Lep b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.19961
Observational Signatures of a Previous Dynamical Instability in Multi-planet M-Dwarf Systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.20337
Gravitational Effects of a Small Primordial Black Hole Passing Through the Human Body
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.09734
Characterization of AF Lep b at high spectral resolution with VLT/HiRISE
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.19558
