Research papers and News items for October 2025
Edwin Rod
Research papers and News items for October 2025
Hi Folks
A range of very interesting papers out this week, David Kipling has an excellent look at small M dwarf stars then a look at an another interesting red dwarf planet in Teegardens star. Plenty more really interesting ones to read.
M-Dwarfs Are Unlikely to Host Observers Such as Ourselves
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01215
The Climate and Habitability of Teegarden's Star b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11940
The solitude zone A probabilistic window for singular lifeform existence
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0094576525006599
Effect of Galactic Chemical Evolution on Exoplanet Properties
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ae0457
Discovery of a Nearby Habitable Zone Super-Earth Candidate Amenable to Direct Imaging
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ae0e20
Observation of undepleted phosphine in the atmosphere of a low-temperature brown dwarf
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03916
Black Hole Survival Guide Searching for Stars in the Galactic Center that Endure Partial Tidal Disruption
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/adefde
A Conceptual Electrodynamic Tethered Spacecraft Demonstration Mission for Propellantless Landing on Io
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20407
New interior models of Uranus and Neptune
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00175
Kiladze Caldera A Possible Cryovolcano on Pluto
https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.10904
Slow Radiolysis of Amino Acids in Mars-Like Permafrost Conditions
https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/full/10.1177/15311074251366249
The late formation of chondrites as a consequence of Jupiter-induced gaps and rings
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.ady4823
A nearly pristine star from the Large Magellanic Cloud
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21643
SETI Post-Detection Protocols
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.14506
Transients in the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey (POSS-I) may be associated with nuclear testing
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-21620-3
Desiccation of the Red Sea basin at the start of the Messinian salinity crisis
https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-025-02642-1
Madagascar’s landscape evolution A tale of two rifts
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adw6362
Estimation and Attribution of Horizontal Land Motion Measured by the Greenland GNSS Network
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2024JB030847
Lost giants, lost functions: palaeodietary insights into the ecological niches of Pleistocene ground sloths
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbl.2025.0158
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Interesting News items
A fast growing planet
https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2516/
An interesting read
https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/red-dwarfs-uninhabitable/
Slowly grinding away
https://www.universetoday.com/articles/the-asteroid-belts-slow-disappearing-act
A good summary of the Lunar south pole
https://www.astronomy.com/science/why-nasa-is-targeting-the-moons-south-pole-for-artemis/
Our quest to find a truly Earth-like planet in deep space
https://theconversation.com/our-quest-to-find-a-truly-earth-like-planet-in-deep-space-266550
Interesting research
https://www.astronomy.com/science/biosphere-2s-latest-mission/
Notes from an Astrobiology Journey in New Zealand
https://cosmobiota.substack.com/p/notes-from-an-astrobiology-journey
Madagascar: The island split in 2 by time
https://eaps.ethz.ch/en/news/archive/2025/10/madagascar-the-island-split-in-two-by-time.html