• Search for Alien Life Gains New Impetus, Washington Post
• Barely Alive, Seafloor Microbes Might Resemble Exo-Organisms, Wired
• Microbes beneath sea floor genetically distinct, Penn State

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• Tunguska catastrophe: Evidence of acid rain supports meteorite theory, Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres
• Phoenix Mars Lander Rasps Frozen Layer, Collects Sample, NASA
• NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander to Begin Rasping Frozen Layer, NASA
• New Findings Show Diverse, Wet Environments on Ancient Mars, Jons Hopkins University
• Wavefront error correction and Earth-like planet detection by Self-Coherent Camera in space, astro-ph
• Planetpol polarimetry of the exoplanet systems 55 Cnc and tau Boo, astro-ph

Posted by Keith Cowing at 12:20 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

• On the complementarity of astrometric and radial velocity exoplanet observations - Determining exoplanet mass with astrometric snapshots, astro-ph
• Transits and secondary eclipses of HD 189733 with Spitzer, astro-ph
• Signals from an Infant Earth, Astrobiology Magazine

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• Towards the Albedo of an Exoplanet: MOST Satellite Observations of Bright Transiting Exoplanetary Systems, astro-ph

Posted by Keith Cowing at 12:07 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

• Cloudy Atmosphere of the Extra-solar Planet HD189733b : A Possible Explanation of the Detected B-band Polarization, astro-ph
• Evaporation of extrasolar planets, astro-ph
• Accretion and destruction of planetesimals in turbulent disks, astro-ph
• High Spatial Resolution Mid-IR Imaging of V838 Monocerotis: Evidence of New Circumstellar Dust Creation, astro-ph

Posted by Keith Cowing at 12:00 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

• Hot super-Earths could host life after all, New Scientist

Posted by Keith Cowing at 9:29 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

• Determination of stellar, orbital and planetary parameters using complete Monte-Carlo analysis -- the case of HAT-P-7b, astro-ph
• Reflected light from 3D exoplanetary atmospheres and simulation of HD 209458b, astro-ph
• Overview of the SIM PlanetQuest Light (SIM-Lite) mission concept, astro-ph

Posted by Keith Cowing at 12:06 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

• Toward detection of terrestrial planets in the habitable zone of our closest neighbor: Proxima Centauri, astro-ph
• An interferometric study of the low-mass protostar IRAS 16293-2422: small scale organic chemistry, astro-ph

Posted by Keith Cowing at 11:49 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

• The MEarth project: searching for transiting habitable super-Earths around nearby M-dwarfs, astro-ph
• Induced Kozai Migration and Formation of Close-in Planets in Binaries, astro-ph
• Stable chaos in the 55Cnc exoplanetary system?, astro-ph
• Dynamics of small bodies in planetary systems, astro-ph
• Extrasolar Giant Planets and X-ray Activity, astro-ph

Posted by Keith Cowing at 9:15 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

• Deep-sea Discoveries on Expedition Using NASA Astrobiology ASTEP AUVs, astro-ph
• The Impact of Transiting Planet Science on the Next Generation of Direct-Imaging Planet Searches, astro-ph
• Long-Term Evolution in Transit Duration of Extrasolar Planets from Magnetic Activity in their Parent Stars, astro-ph
• Organic Matter in Space - an Overview, astro-ph
• Searching for transit timing variations in transiting exoplanet systems, astro-ph
• Time-dependent CO depletion during the formation of protoplanetary disks, astro-ph

Posted by Keith Cowing at 7:31 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

• Explosive volcanism on the ultraslow-spreading Gakkel ridge, Arctic Ocean, Nature
• Open clusters like Orion have low fertility rate, University of California Berkeley
• Fifteen students launch into space research internship at National Space Biomedical Research Institute

Posted by Keith Cowing at 7:34 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

• SuperLupus: A Deep, Long Duration Transit Survey, astro-ph
• Measurements of Stellar Properties through Asteroseismology: A Tool for Planet Transit Studies, astro-ph
• Identifying Transiting Circumbinary Planets, astro-ph
• Collisional and Thermal Emission Models of Debris Disks: Towards Planetesimal Population Properties, astro-ph
• Type II Migration: Varying Planet Mass and Disc Viscosity, astro-ph

Posted by Keith Cowing at 11:32 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

• Transit Detection of Radial Velocity Planets, astro-ph
• Transiting Planets - Lightcurve Analysis for Eccentric Orbits, astro-ph
• Laboratory evidence for efficient water formation in interstellar ices, astro-ph
• Did newborn Earth harbour life?, New Scientist
• Aussie diamonds a clue to life birth, The Australian

Posted by Keith Cowing at 12:23 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

• 'Brain breathalysers' may scan astronauts for stress, New Scientist

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• Direct Detection of the Close Companion of Polaris with the Hubble Space Telescope, astro-ph
• GD 552: a cataclysmic variable with a brown dwarf companion?, astro-ph

Posted by Keith Cowing at 8:24 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

• The HARPS search for southern extra-solar planets. XIII. A planetary system with 3 Super-Earths (4.2, 6.9, & 9.2 Earth masses)
• Optimal strategies of radial velocity observations in planet search surveys
• Comparing the performance of stellar variability filters for the detection of planetary transits

Posted by Keith Cowing at 8:25 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

• NASA Mars Phoenix Scrapes to Icy Soil in Wonderland, NASA
• Cassini to Earth: 'Mission Accomplished, But New Questions Await!', NASA
• Scientists confirm that parts of earliest genetic material may have come from the stars, Imperial College
• Ancient mineral shows early Earth climate tough on continents, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Posted by Keith Cowing at 2:43 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

• What to Expect from Transiting Multiplanet Systems, astro-ph
• Toward a homogeneous set of transiting planet parameters, astro-ph

Posted by Keith Cowing at 8:28 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

• NASA's Mars Phoenix Lander Returns Treasure Trove for Science, NASA
• Where Did Water Flow on Mars? Modeling Mars' surface in search of ancient rivers and oceans, ESRI
• Looking for Early Earth On the Moon, Astrobiology Magazine 
• Migration and growth of giant planets in self-gravitating disks with varied thermodynamics, astro-ph
• The NStED Exoplanet Transit Survey Service, astro-ph
• The Spin-Orbit Alignment of the HD17156 Transiting Eccentric Planetary System, astro-ph
• Formation of Massive Exoplanets by Fragmentation of the Protostellar Cloud and Disk Capture, astro-ph

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• The most extreme life-forms in the universe, New Scientist
• Ice Lines, Planetesimal Composition and Solid Surface Density in the Solar Nebula
• NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander Puts Soil in Chemistry Lab, Team Discusses Next Steps, NASA

Posted by Keith Cowing at 11:33 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

• Bright Chunks at NASA Phoenix Lander’s Mars Site Must Have Been Ice, NASA
• Clouds, Clumps, Cores & Comets - a Cosmic Chemical Connection?, astro-ph
• Lavas from Hawaiian volcano contain fingerprint of planetary formation, University of Chicago

Posted by Keith Cowing at 9:18 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

• Near Infrared Monitoring of Ultracool Dwarfs: Prospects for Searching for Transiting Companion, astro-ph
• Migration of Protoplanets in Radiative Disks, astro-ph

Posted by Keith Cowing at 10:01 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

• Jupiter - friend or foe? I: the asteroids, astro-ph
• New Young Brown Dwarfs in the Orion Molecular Cloud 2/3 Region, astro-ph
• The Mystery of Mass Extinctions Is No Longer Murky, NSF
• Survey for 'super-Earths' finds worlds like ours may be common, Nature

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• Phoenix Probes Martian Soil--No Ice Yet but Lots of Resolution, Scientific American
• A Bounty of Midsize Planets Is Reported, NY Times
• No signs of water yet from Mars lander, LA Times

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• Mini subs to probe odd structures in BC lake
• NASA Astrobiology Research: Astronaut, Scientists Explore Lake to Learn More About Life
• A Trio of Super Earths Discovered
• UNC technology enrolled in hunt for life on Mars

Posted by Keith Cowing at 5:41 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

• Extraterrestrial nucleobases in the Murchison meteorite, Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Posted by Keith Cowing at 11:46 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

• Precise Wavefront Correction with an Unbalanced Nulling Interferometer for Exo-Planet Imaging Coronagraphs, astro-ph

Posted by Keith Cowing at 12:29 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

• Measurement of the Spin-Orbit Angle of Exoplanet HAT-P-1b, astro-ph
• Planetesimal formation around the snow line in MRI-driven turbulent protoplanetary disks, astro-ph

Posted by Keith Cowing at 10:30 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

• Assembling the Building Blocks of Giant Planets around Intermediate Mass Stars, astro-ph
• WASP-10b: a 3M_J, eccentric transiting gas-giant planet, astro-ph
• WASP-14b: A 7.7 Mjup transiting exoplanet in an eccentric orbit, astro-ph
• SPH simulations of grain growth in protoplanetary disks, astro-ph

Posted by Keith Cowing at 10:30 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

• Hairy blobs found in acidic hell, New Scientist
• "Hairy Blobs" Discovered in Acidic Lake Could Have Evolved on Mars, io9

Posted by Keith Cowing at 12:10 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

• A survivor in Greenland: A novel bacterial species is found trapped in 120,000-year-old ice, Penn State
• One week after landing, the NASA Mars Phoenix lander practices digging, University of Arizona
• On the Eccentricity Distribution of Exoplanets from Radial Velocity Surveys, astro-ph
• Photodissociation of small carbonaceous molecules of astrophysical interest, astro-ph
• Photoprocesses in protoplanetary disks, astro-ph
• HD 179949b: A Close Orbiting Extrasolar Giant Planet with a stratosphere?, astro-ph
• Predicting low-frequency radio fluxes of known extrasolar planets, astro-ph

Posted by Keith Cowing at 3:25 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

• Astonomers find tiny planet orbiting tiny star
• Small Planet, Small Star
• Astronomers Weigh the Coldest Brown Dwarfs with Astronomy's Sharpest Eyes

Posted by Keith Cowing at 9:58 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

• Snowball Earth termination by destabilization of equatorial permafrost methane clathrate, Nature
• Water Activity and the Challenge for Life on Early Mars, Science

Posted by Keith Cowing at 12:51 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

• Size-sorting dust grains in the surface layers of protoplanetary disks, astro-ph
• Abundance and diversity of microbial life in ocean crust, Nature
• NASA Solicitation: Research Opportunities for Fundamental Space Biology Investigations in Microbial Plant and Cell Biology

Posted by Keith Cowing at 12:17 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

• New Low-Mass Stars and Brown Dwarfs with Disks in the Chamaeleon I Star-Forming Region, astro-ph
• Photometric Follow-up Observations of the Transiting Neptune-Mass Planet GJ 436b, astro-ph

Posted by Keith Cowing at 12:14 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

• How low can life go? Microbes thrive more than a kilometre beneath the sea floor, Nature

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• Exploring Mars - at the bottom of a B.C. lake, Globe and Mail
• Discovery of OH in Circumstellar Disks Around Young Intermediate-Mass Stars, astro-ph
• Detection of Silica-Rich Deposits on Mars, Science

Posted by Keith Cowing at 10:31 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

• Sun's properties not 'fine-tuned' for life, New Scientist
• Huge hidden biomass lives deep beneath the oceans, New Scientist
• Spectro-astrometric imaging of molecular gas within protoplanetary disk gaps
• Secrets of Mars' Suitability For Life May Be Down in the Dirt, SETI Institute
• ESA COROT: Exoplanet Hunt Update, ESA

Posted by Keith Cowing at 5:31 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

• Microlensing Detections of Moons of Exoplanets, astro-ph
• XO-4b: An Extrasolar Planet Transiting an F5V Star, astro-ph

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• XO-5b: A Transiting Jupiter-sized Planet With A Four Day Period, astro-ph
• Thermal Emission of Exoplanet XO-1b, astro-ph

Posted by Keith Cowing at 12:05 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

• The birth and death of organic molecules in protoplanetary disks, astro-ph

Posted by Keith Cowing at 11:40 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

• Characterizing Long-Period Transiting Planets Observed by Kepler, astro-ph
• On the long-term tidal evolution of GJ 436b in the presence of a resonant companion, astro-ph
• DARWIN - A Mission to Detect, and Search for Life on, Extrasolar Planets, astro-ph

Posted by Keith Cowing at 10:14 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

• Synthetic Spectra and Colors of Young Giant Planet Atmospheres: Effects of Initial Conditions and Atmospheric Metallicity, astro-ph
• An Algorithm For Photometric Identification Of Transiting Circumbinary Planets, astro-ph

Posted by Keith Cowing at 12:26 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

• Rayleigh scattering by H2 in the extrasolar planet HD209458b, astro-ph
• Near-infrared polarization images of the Orion proplyds, astro-ph
• Nonuniform viscosity in the solar nebula and large masses of Jupiter and Saturn, astro-ph
• A Precise Estimate of the Radius of the Exoplanet HD 149026b from Spitzer Photometry, astro-ph
• NASA Kepler Mission Offers Opportunity to Send Names into Space, NASA
• Astrobiology Meets the Video Game: Spore, NASA

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• A simple determination of some characteristics of the beta Pictoris system, astro-ph
• Disk Dispersal and Planet Formation Time Scales, astro-ph

Posted by Keith Cowing at 8:47 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

• The Transit Light Curve Project. IX. Evidence for a Smaller Radius of the Exoplanet XO-3b, astro-ph
• The Successful Prediction of the Extrasolar Planet HD 74156 d, astro-ph
• Evidence of molecular adaptation to extreme environments and applicability to space environments, astro-ph
• On disc protoplanet interactions in a non-barotropic disc with thermal diffusion, astro-ph
• The nature of mid-infrared excesses from hot dust around Sun-like stars, astro-ph
• HD 75289Ab revisited - Searching for starlight reflected from a hot Jupiter, astro-ph
• The Peculiar Volatile Composition of Comet 8P/Tuttle: A Contact Binary of Chemically Distinct Cometesimals?, astro-ph

Posted by Keith Cowing at 10:52 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

• Challenges for asteroseismic analysis of Sun-like stars, astro-ph
• Life-Probing Instrument Preparing for Mission to Mars, UCSD
• Like Martian Water for Chocolate
• Scientists make chemical cousin of DNA for use as new nanotechnology building block
• Before fossil fuels, Earth's minerals kept CO2 in check

Posted by Keith Cowing at 11:18 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

• Mars Photos Appear to Show Dry Hot Springs
• Warming the early Earth - CO2 reconsidered, astro-ph

Posted by Keith Cowing at 12:07 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

• Radio Emission from Exoplanets, astro-ph
• The Alpha Centauri Binary System: Atmospheric Parameters and Element Abundances, astro-ph

Posted by Keith Cowing at 9:22 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

• Solar system could go haywire before the Sun dies, New Scientist
• The potential impact of groove modes on Type II planetary migration, astro-ph
• Towards planetesimals: dense chondrule clumps in the protoplanetary nebula, astro-ph
• Detecting transits from Earth-sized planets around Sun-like stars, astro-ph

Posted by Keith Cowing at 9:37 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

• Resonances of low orders in the planetary system around the star HD37124, astro-ph
• A Code to Compute High Energy Cosmic Ray Effects on Terrestrial Atmospheric Chemistry, astro-ph
• Beyond the Iron Peak: r- and s-process Elemental Abundances in Stars with Planets, astro-ph

Posted by Keith Cowing at 9:46 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

• Dead Zone Accretion Flows in Protostellar Disks, astro-ph
• A peculiarity of metal-poor stars with planets ?, astro-ph
• Critical Test of the Self-Similar Cosmological Paradigm: Anomalously Few Planets Orbiting Low-Mass Red Dwarf Stars, astro-ph
• Astronomy Picture of the Day: Bacteriophages: The Most Common Life-Like Form on Earth

Posted by Keith Cowing at 10:44 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

• Closure Phase Signatures of Planet Transit Events, astro-ph

Posted by Keith Cowing at 10:43 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

• The Transit Light Curve Project. VIII. Six Occultations of the Exoplanet TrES-3, astro-ph
• Modeling the interstellar aromatic infrared bands with co-added spectra of PAHs, astro-ph

Posted by Keith Cowing at 10:28 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

• Is there anybody out there?
• Stellar Birth in the Galactic Wilderness
• Study heats up 'snowball Earth' debate
• Missions to Mars: GSI Will Investigate Radiation Risks for Astronauts

Posted by Keith Cowing at 10:32 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

• Space Radiation May Cause Prolonged Cellular Damage to Astronauts

Posted by Keith Cowing at 10:33 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

• On the Binary Nature of Dust-encircled BD+20 307, astro-ph
• On the Dynamical Stability of the Solar System, astro-ph

Posted by Keith Cowing at 2:26 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

• Astronomers discovered the coldest brown dwarf star ever observed
• New rocky planet found in constellation Leo

Posted by Keith Cowing at 10:34 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

• The Astrobiology Science Conference, 2008
• H2O2-H2O Hypothesis for Life on Mars with the TEGA Instrument on the Phoenix Lander
• Analysis of Underivatized Amino Acids in Geological Samples Using Ion-Pairing Liquid Chromatography and Electrospray Tandem Mass Spectrometry
• On the Survivability and Detectability of Terrestrial Meteorites on the Moon
• Glycine Identification in Natural Jarosites Using Laser Desorption Fourier Transform Mass Spectrometry: Implications for the Search for Life on Mars
• A Quantitative Evaluation of the Iron-Sulfur World and Its Relevance to Life's Origins
• Rate Measurements of the Hydrolysis of Complex Organic Macromolecules in Cold Aqueous Solutions: Implications for Prebiotic Chemistry on the Early Earth

Posted by Keith Cowing at 6:03 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

• Meteorites delivered the 'seeds' of Earth's left-hand life

Posted by Keith Cowing at 12:23 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

• For the paper trail of life on Mars or other planets, find cellulose
• Mars, Earth and Moon from 'unique planetary nursery'

Posted by Keith Cowing at 12:22 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

• The Structure of the DoAr 25 Circumstellar Disk
• `Tail-end' Bondi-Hoyle accretion in young star clusters: Implications for disks, planets, and stars

Posted by Keith Cowing at 7:12 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

• Composition of Ices in Low-Mass Extrasolar Planets, astro-ph

Posted by Keith Cowing at 10:14 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

• The (Super)Wasp Factory Finds 10 New Planets In The Last 6 Months
• Astronomers Find Embryonic Planet
• Discovery of Abundant Cellulose Microfibers Encased in 250 Ma Permian Halite: A Macromolecular Target in the Search for Life on Other Planets

Posted by Keith Cowing at 10:14 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

• Warm 'Tiger Stripes' on Geyser Moon Enceladus Raise Hopes for Life, NASA
• NASA SSB Report: Assessment of the NASA Astrobiology Institute

Posted by Keith Cowing at 2:28 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

• Inverting Phase Functions to Map Exoplanets, astro-ph
• The Solar-System-Scale Disk Around AB Aurigae, astro-ph

Posted by Keith Cowing at 10:41 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

• NASA Cassini Spacecraft Tastes Organic Material at Saturn's Geyser Moon, NASA
• NASA Administrator Announces Science Mission Directorate Leadeship Changes, NASA

Posted by Keith Cowing at 10:41 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

• The Keck Planet Search: Detectability and the Minimum Mass and Orbital Period Distribution of Extrasolar Planets, astro-ph

Posted by Keith Cowing at 3:21 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

• Transiting exoplanets from the CoRoT space mission I - CoRoT-Exo-1b: a low-density short-period planet around a G0V star
• Transiting exoplanets from the CoRoT space mission II. CoRoT-Exo-2b: A transiting planet around an active G star
• Transiting exoplanets from the CoRoT space mission III. The spectroscopic transit of CoRoT-Exo-2b with SOPHIE and HARPS

Posted by Keith Cowing at 11:35 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

• A theoretical investigation into the trapping of noble gases by clathrates on Titan, astro-ph
• Orbital Dynamics Of A Second Planet In HD17156, astro-ph
• Lithium abundances in exoplanet-hosts stars, astro-ph
• The role of massive stars in galactic chemical evolution, astro-ph

Posted by Keith Cowing at 10:00 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

• NASA Mission Finds New Clues to Guide the Search for Life on Mars
• Cassini Spacecraft Finds Ocean May Exist Beneath Titan's Crust

Posted by Keith Cowing at 4:17 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

• Hubble finds first organic molecule on extrasolar planet
• Astronomers Detect First Organic Molecule on an Exoplanet

Posted by Keith Cowing at 4:16 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

• Radiative Thrusters on Close-in Extrasolar Planets, astro-ph
• On the formation and migration of giant planets in circumbinary discs, astro-ph
• NASA Spaceline 14 March 2008 Current Space Life Science Awareness

Posted by Keith Cowing at 12:02 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

• Spitzer Finds Organics and Water Where New Planets May Grow
• NASA Cassini Flies Through Watery Plumes of Saturn's Moon Enceladus
• First Observation of Earth-Like Planet Formation
• Meteorites a Rich Source for Primordial Soup
• New observations of the extended hydrogen exosphere of the extrasolar planet HD209458b, astro-ph
• Reflected Light from Sand Grains in the Terrestrial Zone of a Protoplanetary Disk, astro-ph

Posted by Keith Cowing at 10:02 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

• q1 Eri: a solar-type star with a planet and a dust belt
• CHARA Array Measurements of the Angular Diameters of Exoplanet Host Stars

Posted by Keith Cowing at 9:58 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

• Indigenous amino acids in primitive CR meteorites, astro-ph
• Further Constraints on the Presence of a Debris Disk in the Multiplanet System Gliese 876, astro-ph

Posted by Keith Cowing at 9:54 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

• Planet Formation by Concurrent Collapse, astro-ph
• Turbulent transport and its effect on the dead zone in protoplanetary discs, astro-ph

Posted by Keith Cowing at 10:43 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

• Homogeneous studies of transiting extrasolar planets. I. Light curve analyses, astro-ph
• HST/STIS Optical Transit Transmission Spectra of the hot-Jupiter HD209458b, astro-ph

Posted by Keith Cowing at 10:19 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

• Detecting Planets around Compact Binaries with Gravitational Wave Detectors in Space
• Formation and Detectability of Terrestrial Planets Around Alpha Centauri B

Posted by Keith Cowing at 12:28 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

• Rayleigh scattering in the transit spectrum of HD 189733b, astro-ph
• A coagulation-fragmentation model for the turbulent growth and destruction of preplanetesimals, astro-ph
• Tribute to Paul C. Lauterbur, Astrobiology
• The Spontaneous Development of Biology from Chemistry, Astrobiology
• Superluminous Supernovae: No Threat from n Carinae, Astrobiology
• Microbial Rock Inhabitants Survive Hypervelocity Impacts on Mars-Like Host Planets: First Phase of Lithopanspermia Experimentally Tested Astrobiology, Astrobiology
• Acetylene as Fast Food: Implications for Development of Life on Anoxic Primordial Earth and in the Outer Solar System, Astrobiology
• Formaldehyde in the Far Outer Galaxy: Constraining the Outer Boundary of the Galactic Habitable Zone, Astrobiology
• Control of Lunar and Martian Dust--Experimental Insights from Artificial and Natural Cyanobacterial and Algal Crusts in the Desert of Inner Mongolia, China, Astrobiology
• Subsurface Filamentous Fabrics: An Evaluation of Origins Based on Morphological and Geochemical Criteria, with Implications for Exopaleontology, Astrobiology
• Identification of Morphological Biosignatures in Martian Analogue Field Specimens Using In Situ Planetary Instrumentation, Astrobiology
• Some Ecological Mechanisms to Generate Habitability in Planetary Subsurface Areas by Chemolithotrophic Communities: The Rio Tinto Subsurface Ecosystem as a Model System, Astrobiology
• Implications of an Anthropic Model of Evolution for Emergence of Complex Life and Intelligence, Astrobiology
• Cyanobacterial Emergence at 2.8 Gya and Greenhouse Feedbacks, Astrobiology

Posted by Keith Cowing at 9:02 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

• Modelling solar-like variability for the detection of Earth-like planetary transits. I. Performance of the three-spot modelling and harmonic function fitting, astro-ph
• The formation and evolution of planetary systems: Grain growth and chemical processing of dust in T Tauri systems, astro-ph
• An Extended Model for the Evolution of Prebiotic Homochirality: A Bottom-Up Approach to the Origin of Life, astro-ph

Posted by Keith Cowing at 9:47 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

• MOST detects variability on tau Bootis possibly induced by its planetary companion, astro-ph
• MOST Spacebased Photometry of the Transiting Exoplanet System HD 189733: Precise Timing Measurements for Transits Across an Active Star, astro-ph

Posted by Keith Cowing at 9:48 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

• Planetary Companions around Three Intermediate-Mass G and K Giants: 18 Del, xi Aql, and HD 81688, astro-ph

Posted by Keith Cowing at 9:48 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

• A Multiscale Study of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Properties in Galaxies, astro-ph
• Extent of pollution in planet-bearing stars, astro-ph
• Detecting "Temperate" Jupiters: The Prospects of Searching for Transiting Gas Giants in Habitability Zones, astro-ph
• Numerical simulations of type III planetary migration: III. Outward migration of massive planet, astro-ph

Posted by Keith Cowing at 10:16 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)