Interstellar Updates

Communicating astrobiology and the search for life elsewhere: Speculations and promises of a developing scientific field in newspapers, press releases and papers
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0328766

Cold Jupiters and small planets: Friends, foes, or indifferent? – A search for correlations with the largest exoplanet samples
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/08/aa52523-24/aa52523-24.html

The HR 8799 debris disk: Shaped by planetary migration and a possible fifth outermost planet
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/08/aa54802-25/aa54802-25.html

Searching for Helium Escape and a Low-density Atmosphere Around the 120 Myr Old Sub-Neptune HIP94235b Using CRIRES+
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ade1da

Radiative Flux from a High-resolution Atmospheric Dynamics Simulation of a Hot Jupiter for JWST and Ariel
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/adef02

The Loeb Scale: Astronomical Classification of Interstellar Objects
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09167

Studying Exoplanets in the Radio from the Moon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09222

Machine Learning for Exoplanet Detection: A Comparative Analysis Using Kepler Data
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09689

Primordial planet spin driven by boundary layer effects in a decretion disc
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09273

The watery atmosphere of HD~209458~b revealed by joint K- and L-band high-resolution spectroscopy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09448

Linking planet formation to exoplanet characteristics: C/O as a diagnostic of planet formation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09587

The SPACE Program. I. The featureless spectrum of HD 86226 c challenges sub-Neptune atmosphere trends
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13439

Three hot Jupiters transiting K-dwarfs with significant heavy element masses
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/08/aa53879-25/aa53879-25.html

Cold Jupiters and small planets: Friends, foes, or indifferent? – A search for correlations with the largest exoplanet samples
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/08/aa52523-24/aa52523-24.html

Volatile enrichment in low-mass planets as signatures of past planetary disruption
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/08/aa55923-25/aa55923-25.html

Hot Jupiter formation in dense stellar clusters: A Monte Carlo model applied to 47 Tucanae
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/staf1325/8232674

Strict limits on potential secondary atmospheres on the temperate rocky exo-Earth TRAPPIST-1 d
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08416

Warm, water-depleted rocky exoplanets with surface ionic liquids: A proposed class for planetary habitability
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08437

Searching for Planets Orbiting ε~Eridani with JWST/NIRCam
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08463

A 2821 Star Optical SETI Survey using ESO HARPS archival data
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08628

Simultaneous visible spectrophotometry of interstellar object 3I/ATLAS with Seimei/TriCCS
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08829

Phenomena-Based Engagement (PBE) as an Interstellar Communication Modality: A Thought Experiment
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/382930584_Phenomena-Based_Engagement_PBE_as_an_Interstellar_Communication_Modality_A_Thought_Experiment

Probing Exoplanetary Climates Through Temporal and Spatial Atmospheric Variations
https://www.proquest.com/openview/b2a6e7117804b95f1575bdd492c88282/

Warm, water-depleted rocky exoplanets with surface ionic liquids: A proposed class for planetary habitability
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2425520122

Adding Further Pieces to the Synchronization Puzzle: QBO, Bimodality, and Phase Jumps
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11207-025-02521-0

Volatile enrichment in low-mass planets as signatures of past planetary disruption
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/08/aa55923-25/aa55923-25.html

The Impact of External Radiation on the Inner Disk Chemistry of Planet Formation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06613

Quantifying thermal water dissociation in the dayside photosphere of WASP-121 b using NIRPS
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06626

Planets Around Solar Twins/Analogs (PASTA) II: chemical abundances, systematic offsets, and clues to planet formation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06976

The impact of organic hazes and graphite on the observation of CO2-rich sub-Neptune atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07161

Do Rocky Planets around M Stars Have Atmospheres? A Statistical Approach to the Cosmic Shoreline
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08253

Rotational Dynamics Analysis of Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS: Evidence Against Artificial Origin Claims
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/394321430_Rotational_Dynamics_Analysis_of_Interstellar_Comet_3IATLAS_Evidence_Against_Artificial_Origin_Claims

The orbit of WASP-4 b is in decay
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/541/2/714/8169317

Osiris revisited: Confirming a solar metallicity and low C/O in HD 209458 b
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/08/aa55577-25/aa55577-25.html

Exact Charged Traversable Wormhole Solution
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269325005611

Expanding gravitational capture sets via planetary moon flybys in Sun-planet systems
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0094576525004916

An interstellar mission to test astrophysical black holes
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589004225014038

Wormhole solutions in extended symmetric teleparallel gravity inspired by holographic dark energy
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2212686425002365

MARFA: An effective line-by-line tool for calculating molecular absorption in planetary atmospheres
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022407325002614

Can the Central Star Influence the Substructure Formation in a Protoplanetary Disk?
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1674-4527/ade9e8

Worlds Next Door: A Candidate Giant Planet Imaged in the Habitable Zone of α Centauri A. II. Binary Star Modeling, Planet and Exozodi Search, and Sensitivity Analysis
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/adf53e

Worlds Next Door: A Candidate Giant Planet Imaged in the Habitable Zone of α Centauri A. I. Observations, Orbital and Physical Properties, and Exozodi Upper Limits
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/adf53f

Leading & Trailing Spiral Arms in a Nearly Broken Protoplanetary Disc
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/staf1301/8228487

Scaling K2 VIII: Short-Period Sub-Neptune Occurrence Rates Peak Around Early-Type M Dwarfs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05734

The tidal interaction of an orbiting giant planet with a star near the Kraft break: the excitation of r-modes and the retention of orbital and spin angular momenta misalignment
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05894

K2-18b Does Not Meet The Standards of Evidence For Life
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05961

Formation of organic hazes in CO2-rich sub-Neptune atmospheres within the graphite-stability regime
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05974

Impacts of Atmospheric Carbon Species and Stellar Type on Climates of Terrestrial Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05975

The “Spectral Zoo” of Exoplanet Atmospheres
https://link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007/978-3-319-30648-3_98-2

Algorithm for Investigating Transit Exoplanet Candidates Using the MASTER Global Robotic Telescope Network
https://link.springer.com/article/10.3103/S0027134925700432

Exoplanet Detection: A Detailed Analysis
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-86193-2_9

Supervised Machine Learning Methods with Uncertainty Quantification for Exoplanet Atmospheric Retrievals from Transmission Spectroscopy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04982

CLARA: A Modular Framework for Unsupervised Transit Detection Using TESS Light Curves
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04722

Flares on TRAPPIST-1 reveal the spectrum of magnetic features on its surface
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04793

Experimental demonstration of corrugated nanolaminate films as reflective light sails
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05035