Interstellar Updates

There’s growing evidence of possible life on other planets. Here’s why you should still be skeptical
https://phys.org/news/2025-05-evidence-life-planets-skeptical.html

HD 163296 and its giant planets: Creation of exo-comets, interstellar objects and transport of volatile material
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/05/aa53097-24/aa53097-24.html

The Impact of Stellar Flares on the Atmospheric Escape of Exoplanets Orbiting M Stars. I. Insights from the AU Mic System
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/adc932

Modeling Triatomic Biosignatures: Ozone and Isotopomers
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/adbc61

Ionized Envelopes Around Protoplanets and the Role of Radiative Feedback in Gas Accretion
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/adc392

The Impact of Stellar Flares on the Atmospheric Escape of Exoplanets Orbiting M Stars. I. Insights from the AU Mic System
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/adc932

Escaping Helium and a Highly Muted Spectrum Suggest a Metal-enriched Atmosphere on Sub-Neptune GJ 3090 b from JWST Transit Spectroscopy
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/add010

Continental Orientation and the Climate of Land-dominated, Arid Planets
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/PSJ/adccb6

A Search for Transiting Doppler-Detected Exoplanets
https://www.ewadirect.com/proceedings/tns/article/view/22740

Velocity shift and SNR limits for high-resolution spectroscopy of hot Jupiters using Keck/KPIC
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.09781

Open Source High-Resolution Exoplanet Atmosphere Retrievals with POSEIDON
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.09933

Resonance Capture of a Test Particle by an Eccentric Planet in the Presence of Externally-Driven Apsidal Precession
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.09937

The Hot-Neptune Initiative (HONEI) I. Two hot sub-Neptunes on a close-in, eccentric orbit (TOI-5800 b) and a farther-out, circular orbit (TOI-5817 b)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.10123

Non-transiting exoplanets as a means to understand star-planet interactions in close-in systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.10135

Retrieving interior properties of hot Jupiters with Love numbers and atmospheric measurements
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.10304

An Eccentric Sub-Neptune Moving Into the Evaporation Desert
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.10324

A Systematic Search for Trace Molecules in Exoplanet K2-18 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.10539

The Future of Outer Space Law
https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=lang_en&id=C49cEQAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PA48&dq=interstellar+spacecraft&ots=9j56WszN6r&sig=2HRmSSB0YZIq7s0VIGBeHPHUH9w#v=onepage&q=interstellar%20spacecraft&f=false

Effects of Stellar Flybys on Exocomets in the Beta Pictoris System
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2025hsa..conf…24G/abstract

Water ice in the debris disk around HD 181327
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08920-4

Focus on exoALMA
https://iopscience.iop.org/collections/Focus-on-exoALMA

The tidal heating of the exoplanet 55 Cnc e – The role of the orbital eccentricity
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/05/aa54427-25/aa54427-25.html

An Analytical Model of Wavelength-dependent Opposition Surge in Emittance and Reflectance Spectroscopy of Airless Rocky Exoplanets
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/PSJ/adcba8

Potassium Bromide Glass: Simulating Exoplanet Settings for Infrared Spectroscopy
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/add72c

TASSIE: a TASmanian Search for Inclined Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.09185

The atmospheres of rocky exoplanets III. Using atmospheric spectra to constrain surface rock composition
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.08883

Exoplanet atmospheres at high spectral resolution (2)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.08926

Searching for GEMS: Confirmation of TOI-5573b, a Cool, Saturn-like Planet Orbiting An M-dwarf
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.08947

NeurIPS 2024 Ariel Data Challenge: Characterisation of Exoplanetary Atmospheres Using a Data-Centric Approach
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.08940

A snapshot of relativistic motion: visualizing the Terrell-Penrose effect
https://www.nature.com/articles/s42005-025-02003-6

I’m an exoplanet scientist. Here’s what we lose if we don’t launch Roman.
https://spacenews.com/im-an-exoplanet-scientist-heres-what-we-lose-if-we-dont-launch-roman/

Deep Mantle–Atmosphere Coupling and Carbonaceous Bombardment: Options for Biomolecule Formation on an Oxidized Early Earth
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/adc39b

A third star in the HAT-P-7 system, and a new dynamical pathway to misaligned hot Jupiters
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.07927

GRIP: a generic data reduction package for nulling interferometry
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.08337

CHEOPS Ground Segment: Systems and Automation for Mission and Science Operations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.08352

Origin and Evolution of Extraterrestrial Ozone in the JWST, JUICE, and Europa Clipper Era: A Laboratory Investigation
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acsearthspacechem.4c00415

Energy and Life
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-662-65778-2_2

Dependence of Planet Populations on Stellar Mass and Metallicity: A Pebble-accretion-based Planet Population Synthesis Model
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/adc7a9

Quantitative study of habitability of various classes of exoplanets
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0273117725004776

TESS Investigation — Demographics of Young Exoplanets (TI-DYE) III: an inner super-Earth in TOI-2076
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.06358

The JDISC Survey: Linking the Physics and Chemistry of Inner and Outer Protoplanetary Disk Zones
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.07562

WISE 12 micron search for exozodi candidates within 10 parsecs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.07602

Clouds can enhance direct imaging detection of O2 and O3 on terrestrial exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.07760

Alienating Encounters – Cultural, Religious, Political and Psychological Implications of First Contact in Mary Doria Russell’s The Sparrow and Frederik Pohl’s Gateway
https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1955794/FULLTEXT01.pdf

Navigating Complexity in Big History—Exploring Periodization Across Cosmic and Biosocial Dimensions
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-85410-1

Navigating Complexity in Big History—Exploring Periodization Across Cosmic and Biosocial Dimensions: An Introduction
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-85410-1_1

The Human Journey: A Potential Timetable Extrapolated with Big History Trends
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-85410-1_14

Conclusions: Exploring Big History Periodizations Across Cosmic and Biosocial Dimensions with Ideas for Further Research
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-85410-1_16

Study of Wormholes in Symmetric Teleparallel Theories of Gravity
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.04952

Effects of Jump Detection and Ramp Fitting Algorithms on NIRISS/SOSS Exoplanet Time-Series Observations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.05571

The survivorship bias of protoplanetary disc populations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.05578

Peekaboo: Secular Resonances from Evolving Stellar Oblateness Impede Transit Detection
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.05680

Search for Exoplanetary Ring Systems with TESS
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.05948

Metal-Enriched Atmospheres in Warm (Super- and Sub-)Neptunes Induced by Extreme Atmospheric Escape
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.06013

A Machine-Learning Compositional Study of Exoplanetary Material Accreted Onto Five Helium-Atmosphere White Dwarfs with cecilia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.06228

Persistent Periodic Signals from 51 Peg in TESS Lightcurves
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/add5e0

Characterizing the Impact of Alfvén Wave Forcing in Interplanetary Space on the Distribution of Near-Earth Solar Wind Speeds
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/add0a6

The Exoplanet Edge: Planets Do Not Induce Observable Transit Timing Variations with a Dominant Transit Timing Variation Period Faster than Half Their Orbital Period
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/adc563

A transiting multi-planet system in the 61 million year old association Theia 116
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/staf726/8128027

The SPHERE infrared survey for exoplanets (SHINE) IV. Complete observations, data reduction and analysis, detection performances, and final results
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/05/aa51751-24/aa51751-24.html