August 2025 research and news items

 

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

https://science.nasa.gov/missions/webb/nasas-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"

https://www.nagoya-u.ac.jp/researchinfo/result-en/2025/08/20250826-01.html

 

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