Interstellar Updates

Momentum Exchange with Radiation in Euclidean Special Relativity: A Geometrical Interpretation with Implications for Propulsion
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/399667411_Momentum_Exchange_with_Radiation_in_Euclidean_Special_Relativity_A_Geometrical_Interpretation_with_Implications_for_Propulsion

Technological Singularity despite Decentralized Consumption (TSDC) and Its Implications for Extraterrestrial Civilization Exploration
https://www.academia.edu/129756369/Technological_Singularity_despite_Decentralized_Consumption_TSDC_and_Its_Implications_for_Extraterrestrial_Civilization_Exploration?sm=b&rhid=37397469293

Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO): Living Worlds Community Working Group: The Search for Life on Potentially Habitable Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.09766

HOPS-288: A Laboratory for Complex Organics in Proto-multiple Systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.08948

Photoactive elemental sulfur allotropes promote extensive ammonia synthesis in Venus-like atmosphere
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12783716/

Electric Fields Can Assist Prebiotic Reactivity on Hydrogen Cyanide Surfaces
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acscentsci.5c01497

Observation of a mixed close-packed structure in superionic water
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-67063-2

Modeling the Effect of C/O Ratio on Complex Carbon Chemistry in Cold Molecular Clouds
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.04103

A comprehensive study of the relations between the properties of planetary systems and the chemical compositions of their host stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.00962

The Persistent Thermal Anomalies in Rocky Worlds
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.00412

Mass estimates of the young TOI-451 transiting planets: Multidimensional Gaussian Process on stellar spectroscopic and photometric signals
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stag087/8425381

The Influence of Chemical Structure on the Electronic Structure of Propylene Oxide
https://www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/26/23/11729

Investigation of Space Biocementation under Microgravity via Enzyme-Induced Carbonate Precipitation
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2949929126000021

Cross-domain convergence of generative models: From biomedical to astronomical applications
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S266682702600006X

A Photonic Sail of Utmost Simplicitiy: The Ribbon
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2026-1833

Propulsion Research and Academic Programs at UAH, Space Nuclear Propulsion Focus – 2025
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2026-0061

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

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

A Robust Launching Mechanism for Freely-Floating Planets from Host Stars with Close-in Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.09835

How disc initial conditions sculpt the atmospheric composition of giant planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.10285

TOI-3862 b: A dense super-Neptune deep in the hot Neptune desert
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.10450

sponchpop II: Population Synthesis to Investigate Volatile Sulfur as a Fingerprint of Gas Giant Formation Histories
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.10508

The GAPS programme at TNG LXXI. A sub-Neptune suitable for atmospheric characterization in a multiplanet and mutually inclined system orbiting the bright K dwarf TOI-5789 (HIP 99452)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11490

Searching for Signs of Life and Habitable Worlds
https://etda.libraries.psu.edu/catalog/22560nxt5197

DUST-Based Propulsion Systems: Theoretical Framework for Advanced Spacecraft
https://www.academia.edu/145764039/DUST_Based_Propulsion_Systems_Theoretical_Framework_for_Advanced_Spacecraft

Stellar engines and Dyson bubbles can be stable
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stag100/8426277

Mass estimates of the young TOI-451 transiting planets: Multidimensional Gaussian Process on stellar spectroscopic and photometric signals
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stag087/8425381

Dual-backend Multibeam Position-switching Targeted SETI Observations toward Nearby Active Planet-hosting Systems with FAST
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ae28cc

High-contrast L-band Integral Field Spectroscopy of HD 33632 Ab
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ae29a4

A Terrestrial-sized Planet Candidate Orbiting the Nearby M-dwarf TIC 22760643.01
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ae3758

Flare-driven habitability: Expanding life’s potential around low-mass stars
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666675826000123

Electrical conductivities of (Mg,Fe)O at extreme pressures and implications for planetary magma oceans
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1038/s41550-025-02729-x

Magma oceans could host dynamos in massive Earth-like planets
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1038/s41550-025-02731-3

The Interstellar Permafrost Hypothesis for 3I/ATLAS (C/2025 N1)
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/399769286_The_Interstellar_Permafrost_Hypothesis_for_3IATLAS_C2025_N1

Formation and evolution of planetary systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.08952

Depletion of moderately volatile elements by pebble accretion in Earth-like planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.08958

NIRPS tightens the mass estimate of GJ 3090 b and detects a planet near the stellar rotation period
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.09330

Habitable Worlds Observatory Living Worlds Working Group: Surface Biosignatures on Potentially Habitable Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.08883

Planet-Host Stars Across the Galaxy in the 2040s
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.08890

Base-Invariant Detection of Mathematical Constants in Universal Communication Systems
https://zenodo.org/records/18233478

Modelling Novel Linear Parabolic Magnetic Nozzle Configurations for a Z-Pinch Fusion Propulsion System
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2026-2215

Excitation of planetary inclinations via dynamical bifurcations driven by misaligned disks
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2026/01/aa55897-25/aa55897-25.html

A Case Study on Photostability of Biologically Relevant Anions under Structural Modifications
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stag075/8424237

An Improved Machine Learning Approach for Radio Frequency Interference Mitigation in FAST–SETI Survey Archival Data
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ae28ca

Anyon qubits and quantum AI beyond interstellar
https://ejournals.epublishing.ekt.gr/index.php/openschoolsjournal/article/view/44022

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

Dust Properties of the Interstellar Object 3I/ATLAS Revealed by Optical and Near-Infrared Polarimetry
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.08591

Jupiter-like uniform metal enrichment in a system of multiple giant exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.08227

Rare Near-Opposition Alignment of 3I/ATLAS on 22 January, 2026
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.08624

Astrobiology and SETI: the possible solution of the Fermi paradox
https://www.academia.edu/58559278/Astrobiology_and_SETI_the_possible_solution_of_the_Fermi_paradox

The Maturity Hypothesis: Dimensional Transcendence and the Resolution of the Fermi Paradox
https://www.academia.edu/145908334/The_Maturity_Hypothesis_Dimensional_Transcendence_and_the_Resolution_of_the_Fermi_Paradox_Research_Edition_

Measuring better stellar radius with Gaia: an application to transiting exoplanets
https://repositorio-aberto.up.pt/bitstream/10216/172032/2/753889.pdf

NASA Selects Tech Proposals to Advance Search-for-Life Mission
https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-selects-tech-proposals-to-advance-search-for-life-mission/

How astronomers plan to detect the signatures of alien life in the atmospheres of distant planets
https://phys.org/news/2026-01-astronomers-signatures-alien-life-atmospheres.html

NASA’s Pandora telescope will study stars in detail to learn about the exoplanets orbiting them
https://phys.org/news/2026-01-nasa-pandora-telescope-stars-exoplanets.html

How common are oxygenic photosynthesis and large coal deposits on exoplanets?
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-astrobiology/article/how-common-are-oxygenic-photosynthesis-and-large-coal-deposits-on-exoplanets/8D45673E4BCB261505C9AC72B73204EF

Disentangling the Hemispheres of Teegarden’s Star b with LIFE
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ae2fdd

Exoplanet characterization with NASA’s Habitable Worlds Observatory
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.06233

Transiting exoplanets as the immediate future for population-level atmospheric science
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.06236

Ultraviolet observations of atmospheric escape in exoplanets with the Habitable Worlds Observatory
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.06263

Incorporating Wavefront Error, Wavefront Sensing and Control, and Sensitivities into Exposure Time Calculations for Future Space Missions with the Error Budget Software (EBS)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.06342

NASA Decadal Astrobiology Research and Exploration Strategy (NASA-DARES 2025) White Paper — Habitable Worlds Observatory Living Worlds Science Cases: Research Gaps and Needs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.06386

SPHEREx Re-Observation of Interstellar Object 3I/ATLAS in December 2025: Detection of Increased Post-Perihelion Activity, Refractory Coma Dust, and New Coma Gas Species
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.06759

Magma Ocean Waves and Thermal Variability on Lava Worlds
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.07080

Characterization of two new transiting sub-Neptunes and a terrestrial planet around M-dwarf hosts
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.07414

Exoplanet transit search at the detection limit: detection and false alarm vetting pipeline
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.07465

The Antigravity Enigma: Fiction, Fringe Science, and Modern Physics
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-032-11795-3

Space Anthropology
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/abs/10.2514/6.2026-2865

Modelling Novel Linear Parabolic Magnetic Nozzle Configurations for a Z-Pinch Fusion Propulsion System
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/abs/10.2514/6.2026-2215

Development of a 3U Plasma Magnet Technology Demonstrator
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/abs/10.2514/6.2026-2216

Interplanetary Navigator: Development and Validation through Optimal Control Trajectory Optimisation
https://webthesis.biblio.polito.it/38560/

Hybrid Laser Fusion Thermonuclear Propulsion System
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/abs/10.2514/6.2026-2906

First Intermission: Why the Existence of the Past Can Make a Difference to How We Feel About Life
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-032-04122-7_4

Directed Information Panspermia as a Possible Method of Interstellar Communication
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/astronomy-and-space-sciences/articles/10.3389/fspas.2026.1721171/abstract

Development of a 3U Plasma Magnet Technology Demonstrator
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/abs/10.2514/6.2026-2216

Paving the Road to the Habitable Worlds Observatory with High-Resolution Imaging I: New and Archival Speckle Observations of Potential HWO Target Stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.05387

Stellar control on atmospheric carbon chemistry, CO runaway, and organic synthesis on lifeless Earth-like planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.05480

Two temperate Earth- and Neptune-sized planets orbiting fully convective M dwarfs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.05799

Distinct Rotational Evolution of Giant Planets and Brown Dwarf Companions
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.05976

The Lazuli Space Observatory: Architecture & Capabilities
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.02556

Magnetic star-planet interaction in the young exoplanet system DS Tucanae Ab
https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-8176281/v1

Mass of a rogue exoplanet measured for the first time
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0262407926000382

Dynamical Architectures of S-type Transiting Planets in Binaries. II. A Dichotomy in Orbital Alignment of Small Planets in Close Binary Systems
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ae2309