SScience Read More Connecting Polarization To Exoplanet Yield Calculations For Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO)June 14, 2026 Overview of the simulation pipeline components used in this work. The modeling begins with hwo pol, a Poke…
SScience Read More Japan’s Possible Contributions For Coronagraph Of The Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO)June 13, 2026 Example of the optical design for the NIR coronagraph. (Top) Overall layout of the optical system, where the…
SScience Read More Prospects for Astrobiology And Technosignature Searches With The Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey Of Space And TimeJune 13, 2026 Simulated multiband light-curve populations in the Cchroma–Ccross diagnostic plane. Left: noise-dominated, natural, and coherent variability classes (N ≈…
SScience Read More The Unique Ability Of The Hubble Space Telescope To Characterize Young Exoplanet EnvironmentsMay 30, 2026 Modified Pass et al. (2025) Figure 2 showing an updated Cosmic Shoreline for exoplanets orbiting full convective M…
SScience Read More PEEPSS: Photonic-Enabled ExoPlanet Spectroscopic Sensor for the Habitable Worlds ObservatoryApril 30, 2026 The complete proposed wavefront sensing process. (Starting from the top left and going around clockwise) The full coronagraph…
SScience Read More Planetary Exploration 3.0: A Roadmap for Software-Defined, Radically Adaptive Space SystemsApril 25, 2026 Planetary exploration is characterized by unknowns, which are both the primary reason and challenge for exploration. (a) The…
SScience Read More Continuing To Advance European High Contrast Imaging Research And Development Towards HWO And LIFEApril 20, 2026 Artist’s impression of the LIFE nulling-interferometry mission, consisting of four collector spacecraft in a rectangular array configuration sending…
SScience Read More Narrowband Radio Technosignature Search Toward 3I/ATLAS With FASTMarch 21, 2026 Scatter plots of potential candidate in frequency, drift rate and signal-to-noise ratio for each polarization channel. The color…
SScience Read More Searching For Life-As-We-Don’t-Know-It: Mission-relevant Application of Assembly Theory For Exoplanet Life DetectionMarch 14, 2026 Potentially habitable worlds – Grok via Astrobiology.com This white paper introduces a framework for applying Assembly Theory (AT)…