Interstellar Updates

ASASSN-24fw: Candidate Gas-rich Circumsecondary Disk Occultation of a Main-sequence Star
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ae1fd9

Compositional selection of phospholipid compartments in icy environments drives the enrichment of encapsulated genetic information
https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2025/sc/d5sc04710b

Resurrected nitrogenases recapitulate canonical N-isotope biosignatures over two billion years
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-67423-y

A dual-polarization mid-infrared kinetic inductance detector with photon-noise-limited performance
https://pubs.aip.org/aip/apl/article-abstract/127/19/192602/3372143/A-dual-polarization-mid-infrared-kinetic

Regolith as a Refuge: Differential Survival of Bacteriophage Qβ in Mars-Analog Environments
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.02.691594v1

Exploring the diversity within EANA and AbGradE as mirror of the European astrobiology community
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-astrobiology/article/exploring-the-diversity-within-eana-and-abgrade-as-mirror-of-the-european-astrobiology-community/1FC677049E6A3BA6723B32E383C59A21

Circumplanetary Disk Candidate in the Disk of HD 163296 Traced by Localized Emission from Simple Organics
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.10631

Biofilms: from the cradle of life to life support
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41522-025-00875-8

Radio Activity from the Rapidly Rotating T dwarf 2MASS 2228-4310
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stag085/8431331

Inverse Relationship Between Halophilic Growth and Cell Integrity Under Extremely Chaotropic Conditions
https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1177/15311074251376365

Clouds as the driver of variability and colour changes in brown dwarf atmospheres
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-025-02709-1

Validation of Structural Flux Dynamics in Interstellar Object 3I/ATLAS (SPT v1.3 — Part VII)
https://zenodo.org/records/18187161

Application of the Structural Flux Paradigm to Interstellar Object 3I/ATLAS (SPT v1.3 — Part VIII)
https://zenodo.org/records/18203345

Conway’s Game of Life as an Analogue to a Habitable World: Livingness beyond the Biological
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.22389

Inferring Planet and Disk Parameters from Protoplanetary Disk Images Using a Variational Autoencoder
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ae22ed

The MATISSE view of the inner region of the RY Tau protoplanetary disk
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2026/01/aa55717-25/aa55717-25.html

Young M-dwarfs flare activity model: Towards better exoplanetary atmospheric characterisation
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2026/01/aa56844-25/aa56844-25.html

The ¹²CO gas structures of protoplanetary disks in the Upper Scorpius region
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2026/01/aa57366-25/aa57366-25.html

Perihelion Asymmetry in the Water Production Rate of the Interstellar Object 3I/ATLAS
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.15443

Evidence for stellar contamination and water absorption in NGTS-5b’s transmission spectra with GTC/OSIRIS
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.15704

Hot and cloudy: High temperature clouds in super-Earths and sub-Neptunes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.15927

A 2 au resolution view by ALMA of the planet-hosting WISPIT 2 disk
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.15948

Modeling the Impact of Unresolved Stellar Companions on Detection Sensitivity in Kepler’s Small Planet Occurrence Rates
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.16031

A multiwavelength ALMA view of gas and dust in binary protoplanetary system AS 205: Evidence of dust asymmetric distribution
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.16202

CO Diffusion on Interstellar Amorphous Solid Water: A Computational Study
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.15057

Origins of Life: Chemistry and Evolution
https://chemrxiv.org/doi/full/10.26434/chemrxiv-2023-1jrcq-v3

An electrostatic fusion collider for interstellar propulsion
https://indico.jacow.org/event/97/contributions/11252/

From Astrobiology to Astrotoxicology: A Brief Comparison of Modern Astronomical Sciences
https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202601.1495

Slowing planetary rotation influences ocean nutrient cycling and oxygenation
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adw3368

Thermodynamic Signatures and Information-Theoretic Constraints in SETI: A Multi-Messenger Approach
https://zenodo.org/records/18321485

The Plato Mission: revealing habitable planets around sun-like stars
https://link.springer.com/collections/egaaiadfdi

Core–envelope miscibility in sub-Neptunes and super-Earths
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09970-4

Life and AI at NASA: An Ethnography of How Scientists and Engineers Make Tools to Explore Other Worlds
https://research.chalmers.se/en/publication/550000

Characterising planetary systems with SPIRou: Questions about the magnetic cycle of 55 Cnc A and two new planets around B
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2026/01/aa56146-25/aa56146-25.html

TOI-333b: A Neptune-desert planet around an F7V star
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2026/01/aa57014-25/aa57014-25.html

Astronomy and Philosophy: Conceptual and Methodological Foundations and Challenges
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/astronomy-and-philosophy/E0902803DC83606E7D5C9F87D16CC116

Rare Near-opposition Alignment of 3I/ATLAS on 2026 January 22
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ae3a77

Out There No One Has a Right to Die
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bioe.70083

The Enhanced Starshot Concept: Beyond Breakthrough Starshot, towards an Enhanced Framework for Interstellar Travel
https://www.oxfordjss.org/january-2026-vol-3-issue-1-1/the-enhanced-starshot-concept%3A-beyond-breakthrough-starshot%2C-towards-an-enhanced-framework-for-interstellar-travel

Interstellar Object 3I/ATLAS: An Integrated Theoretical Framework
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/399931158_Interstellar_Object_3IATLAS_An_Integrated_Theoretical_Framework

Exoplanets beyond the Conservative Habitable Zone. I. Habitability
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ae21d7

Exoplanets beyond the Conservative Habitable Zone. II. Occurrence
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ae2262

Most Hot Jupiters Were Cool Giant Planets for More Than 1 Gyr
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.14367

PyISH: Python Integral Field Spectroscopy Simulation for HWO
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.14432

SETI Observations of k-Hz Periodic Radio Signals from Five Nearby Stars with FAST at L Band
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.14630

ExoMiner++ 2.0: Vetting TESS Full-Frame Image Transit Signals
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.14877

How a Close-in Planet Protects its White Dwarf Host from Pollution
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.15005

Comparative biosignatures with systemic retrievals
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.01512

Observation of an Accreting Planetary-Mass Companion with Signs of Disk-Disk Interaction in Orion
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04944

The Student Collaboration of the Interstellar Mapping And Acceleration Probe (IMAP) Mission: The 3UCubed CubeSat Project and Associated Space Science and Engineering Education
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11214-026-01269-8

A Nomenclature for Individual Exocomets
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11214-025-01261-8

A Study on Habitability Assessment of Kepler-22b and a Rapid Interstellar Transit Dynamics Model Based on Five-Dimensional Spacetime Manifold Folding and Nonlocal Quantum-Coherent Navigation
https://zenodo.org/records/18321666

From the Search for Extraterrestrial Life to Interstellar Civilizations: A Stepwise Logical Analysis of Astrobiological and Technological Uncertainties
https://zenodo.org/records/18321628

An interstellar energetic and non-aqueous pathway to peptide formation
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-025-02765-7

Silane–Methane Competition in Sub-Neptune Atmospheres as a Diagnostic of Metallicity and Magma Oceans
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stag133/8431334

A planet–host ratio relation to synthesize microlensing and transiting exoplanet demography from Roman
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stag088/8429605

The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence: Theory and practice
https://iopscience.iop.org/book/mono/978-0-7503-4796-9

Metrics for Optimizing Searches for Orbital Precession and Tidal Decay via Transit Timing and Occultation Timing
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ae2a23

Validation of a Third Earth-sized Planet in the TOI-2267 Binary System
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ae2be9

Outward Migration of a Gas Accreting Planet: A Semianalytical Formula
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ae2612

Concurrent Accretion and Migration of Giant Planets in their Natal Disks with Consistent Accretion Torque. II. Parameter Survey and Condition for Outward Migration
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ae261a

On the Importance of Geometry in Exoplanet Irradiation: Implications for the Day–Night Contrast
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ae29ea

Evaluating Star–Planet Interactions with Zeeman Doppler Imaging: Case Study in YZ Ceti
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ae2619

JWST Exoplanetary Worlds and Elemental Survey (JEWELS). I. High-precision Chemical Abundances of 20 FGK Planet-hosting Stars from JWST Cycle 2
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4365/ae2a29

Machine learning for the prioritization of Dyson sphere candidates
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0957417426001466

Sonification of Exoplanet Transit Light Curves from the Kepler Mission
https://www.scholarlyreview.org/article/154963-sonification-of-exoplanet-transit-light-curves-from-the-kepler-mission

Orbital Stability of Closely-Spaced Four-planet Systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.11692

Exoplanet atmospheres and demographics in the 2040s
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.11695

Habitable Worlds Observatory’s Concept and Technology Maturation: Initial Feasibility and Trade Space Exploration
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.11803

Interior dynamics of envelopes around disk-embedded planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.12074

Revisiting the exoplanet radius valley with host stars from SWEET-Cat
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.12396

Observational Signatures of Planetary Tidal Disruption Events Around Solar-Mass Stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.12501

Analytic Modeling of Tidally Locked Rocky Planet Atmospheres Across Dynamical Regimes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.12556

BOWIE-ALIGN: Sub-solar C/O ratio and metallicity atmosphere of the misaligned hot Jupiter HAT-P-30b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.13104

Toward Reliable Interpretations of Small Exoplanet Compositions: Comparisons and Considerations of Equations of State and Materials Used in Common Rocky Planet Models
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.13176

The Occurrence Rate of Nearby Planetary Companions to Hot Jupiters
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.13302

Four Cold Super-Jupiters Revealed by Extended and Complex Microlensing Signals
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.13450

Architectures of Exoplanetary Systems. IV: A Multi-planet Model for Reproducing the Radius Valley and Intra-system Size Similarity of Planets around Kepler’s FGK Dwarfs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.13480

Follow-up of three exocomet-host candidates
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.13850

Discovery and characterisation of two exoplanets orbiting the metal-poor, solar-type star TOI-5788 with TESS, CHEOPS, and HARPS-N
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.14045

Pre-computed aerosol extinction, scattering and asymmetry grids for scalable atmospheric retrievals
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.14177

The PAIRS project: a global formation model for planets in binaries. I. Effect of disc truncation on the growth of S-type planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.14214

The PAIRS project: a global formation model for planets in binaries. II. Gravitational perturbation effects from secondary stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.14215

Using observations of escaping H/He to constrain the atmospheric composition of sub-Neptunes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.14254

On the importance of geometry in exoplanet irradiation : Implications for the day-night contrast
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.15021

An Improved Machine Learning Approach for Radio Frequency Interference Mitigation in FAST-SETI Survey Archival Data
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.15809

The ALMA survey to Resolve exoKuiper belt Substructures (ARKS) — I: Motivation, sample, data reduction, and results overview
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2026/01/aa56489-25/aa56489-25.html

Silane–Methane Competition in Sub-Neptune Atmospheres as a Diagnostic of Metallicity and Magma Oceans
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stag133/8431334

A planet–host ratio relation to synthesize microlensing and transiting exoplanet demography from Roman
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stag088/8429605

The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence — Theory and practice
https://iopscience.iop.org/book/mono/978-0-7503-4796-9

Validation of a Third Earth-sized Planet in the TOI-2267 Binary System
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ae2be9

JWST Exoplanetary Worlds and Elemental Survey (JEWELS). I. High-precision Chemical Abundances of 20 FGK Planet-hosting Stars from JWST Cycle 2
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4365/ae2a29

Observational Baseline and Laminar Coupling State in Interstellar Object 3I/ATLAS (SPT v1.3 — Part V)
https://zenodo.org/records/18157921

Sonification of Exoplanet Transit Light Curves from the Kepler Mission
https://www.scholarlyreview.org/article/154963-sonification-of-exoplanet-transit-light-curves-from-the-kepler-mission

Accelerating exoplanet climate modelling:. A machine learning approach to complement 3D general circulation model grid simulations
https://www.aanda.org/component/article?access=doi&doi=10.1051/0004-6361/202555631

Aligned, Misaligned and Polar Orbits of Hot Jupiters: Measuring Spin-Orbit Angles via Doppler Tomography with HARPS-N
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.11313

A Space Propulsion Concept Based on Inertial Confinement: Exploring Nuclear Fusion Utilizing Polywell Geometry
https://www.proquest.com/openview/7022992758055bda62a87a6d444a9571

Could Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) Be from Earth’s Dark (Matter) Biosphere? The Inter-Terrestrial Aliens” Hypothesis (ITH)
https://www.academia.edu/145304901/Could_Unidentified_Aerial_Phenomena_UAP_Be_from_Earths_Dark_Matter_Biosphere_The_Inter_Terrestrial_Aliens_Hypothesis_ITH_

Exoplanet Detection Using TESS, Kepler, and HST/COS Data
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/399798328_Exoplanet_Detection_Using_TESS_Kepler_and_HSTCOS_Data

The Meyler–Fuchs Hybrid Warp Drive: A Positive-Energy, Toroidal-Shell Design with Hyperbolic Shift DynamicsAst
https://www.academia.edu/145403845/The_Meyler_Fuchs_Hybrid_Warp_Drive_A_Positive_Energy_Toroidal_Shell_Design_with_Hyperbolic_Shift_Dynamics

The Activated Bridge: Dynamically-Induced Traversable Wormholes via Counter-Rotational Gravitomagnetic Shear
https://www.academia.edu/145733182/The_Activated_Bridge_Dynamically_Induced_Traversable_Wormholes_via_Counter_Rotational_Gravitomagnetic_Shear

Exploring Undiscovered Principles at the Life-Non-Life Interface Through Chemistry, Physics, and Stellar Phenomena
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/399759055_Exploring_Undiscovered_Principles_at_the_Life-Non-Life_Interface_Through_Chemistry_Physics_and_Stellar_Phenomena

The impact of disc photoevaporation on the long-term evolution of giant planets in mean motion resonances
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.10811

Rotation Period of 3I/ATLAS After Perihelion from Jet Position Angle Wobble and Photometric Variability
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.10860

Detection of four cold Jupiters through combined analyses of radial velocity and astrometry data
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.11280

KMT-2025-BLG-1616Lb: First Microlensing Bound Planet From DREAMS
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.11469

A predictive framework for realistic star-planet radio emission in compact systems
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2026/01/aa57706-25/aa57706-25.html

True spin-orbit obliquity distribution: Data-driven confirmation of no clustering of misaligned planets
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2026/01/aa55173-25/aa55173-25.html

Young M-dwarfs flare activity model: Towards better exoplanetary atmospheric characterisation
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2026/01/aa56844-25/aa56844-25.html

Low-density worlds reveal the secrets of planetary systems
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0262407926000746

The Trajectory of 3I/ATLAS Through the Inner Solar System: Close Encounters and Possible Collisions
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ae2ea6

Shibastra B Theory for Earth to Proxima Centauri B Journey
https://www.academia.edu/145758935/Shibastra_B_Theory_for_Earth_to_Proxima_Centauri_B_Journey

Discrete Reference Frames Along the Earth-Black Hole Axis: A Conceptual and Quantitative Analysis of Proper Time Near the Event Horizon
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6036994

Exotic Physics Teleportation via Traversable Wormholes: Theoretical Foundations, Mathematical Structure, Evidence Status, and Engineering Pathways Toward Macroscopic Transport
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/399825932_Exotic_Physics_Teleportation_via_Traversable_Wormholes_Theoretical_Foundations_Mathematical_Structure_Evidence_Status_and_Engineering_Pathways_Toward_Macroscopic_Transport