August 2025 research and news items
Edwin Rod
August 2025 research and news items
The big news this month is the giant planet around Alpha Centauri A, I will be looking forward to more information on this planet which appears to be a Saturn Gas giant, not was I was expecting to find. Atmospheres around planets orbiting close in to small red Dwarf stars are not looking to promising, I also found an older paper on the subject when reading about the Trappist Planets. Keep a watch of observations on interstellar comet 3I Atlas. Some interesting news articles out too this month and a few of top picks are below.
A lot of research to read and study here
A Candidate Giant Planet Imaged in the Habitable Zone of Cen A Orbital and Physical Properties
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03814
A Candidate Giant Planet Imaged in the Habitable Zone of Cen A Binary Star Modeling
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03812
Imaging low-mass planets within the habitable zone of A Centauri
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-21176-6
Strict Limits on Potential Secondary Atmospheres on the Temperate Rocky Exo-Earth TRAPPIST-1 d
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/adf207
The possibility of a giant impact on Venus
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03239
Core metamorphism controls the dynamic habitability
of mid- sized ocean worlds—The case of Ceres
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adt3283
A water-rich interior in the temperate sub-Neptune K2-18 b revealed by JWST
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12622
The JWST Rocky Worlds DDT Program reveals GJ 3929b to likely be a bare rock
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12516
Detecting Extraterrestrial Civilizations that Employ an Earth-level Deep Space Network
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/adf6b0
Direct Spacecraft Exploration of a Possible Relic of Planetary Formation at Cosmic Noon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15768
Water Detection in the Interstellar Object 3IATLAS
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04675
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Interesting News items
NASA’s Webb Finds New Evidence for Planet Around Closest Solar Twin
Project Hyperion explores the feasibility of crewed interstellar travel via generation ships, using current and near-future technologies.
https://www.projecthyperion.org/
Icy Worlds
https://www.universetoday.com/articles/simulating-ice-worlds-in-the-lab
Early Primates may have evolved in cool temperate forests, of North America
Early primates evolved in cold climates, not tropical jungles
https://www.earth.com/news/early-primates-evolved-in-cold-climates-not-tropical-jungles/
A good look at the Interior of Mars here
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasa-marsquake-data-reveals-lumpy-nature-of-red-planets-interior/
Scientists date the origin of Jupiter by studying the formation of "molten rock raindrops"
Scientists date the origin of Jupiter by studying the formation of
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