This week we have 25 new papers relevant to the origins of life. Enjoy!

Please note that inclusion of these papers reflects topic, not quality, and that evaluating scientific merit is out of scope for this newsletter.

AI-detection tools (e.g. Pangram) can also be useful when first assessing new publications.

Astrobiology

The lost oceans of Venus
Ghail et al. — Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Retaining Earth's Habitability Beyond the Life of the Sun
Harry — preprint

The Search for Life and Biosignatures on Mars: A Mars System Science Approach (Atmosphere, Hydrosphere, Cryosphere, Lithosphere, Geologic History)
Head et al. — Astrobiology

Atmospheres as Habitats
Izenberg et al. — Astrobiology

Nondetection of Narrowband Radio Technosignatures from LHS 1140 b at 1–12 GHz
Jacobson-Bell et al. — Research Notes of the AAS

Hydrogen peroxide on Mars and icy moons: Implications for the search for extraterrestrial signatures of prebiotic chemistry
Lin et al. — Fundamental Research

Quantifying detection bias and recovering habitable zone occurrence rates in the NASA exoplanet archive
Shah et al. — Astronomy and Computing

Astrochemistry

Formation of nitriles and isonitriles by the heavy-ion irradiation of propionitrile in N2-rich astrophysical ices
Barros et al. — preprint

Inventories of Rich Carbon-Chain Chemistry in Prestellar and Starless Cores in the Perseus Molecular Cloud
Pokorny-Yadav et al. — preprint

Ammonium salt formation and abundance in protoplanetary disks
Ruaud et al. — preprint

Astrophysics

Searching for Habitable Exoplanets with Relative Astrometry (SHERA). I. The Case for Searching for Planets in Binary Star Systems
Christiansen et al. — preprint

Life 2.0: A Scalable Distributed Space-Telescope Array for Biosignature Spectroscopy
Ge et al. — preprint

Exploration of Exoplanet Atmospheres with the James Webb Space Telescope
Hinkley et al. — preprint

A broad exploration of climate and observability of close-in rocky exoplanets: applications to Ross 128 b
Mathilde et al. — preprint

Biochemistry

Reconstructing ancient protein alphabets: what can we truly infer?
Fried et al. — Trends in Genetics

Inside the RNA world, 40 years on
Vázquez-Salazar — Trends in Biochemical Sciences

Chemistry

New Hydrolysis Rate Constants Reveal Longest Cyanide Persistence in Cool, Neutral Waters
Murali et al. — preprint

Causal Architecture Dynamics Prior to Arrival of Self-replicators in a Model of Catalytic Networks Relevant to Origin-of-Life
Pigozzi et al. — preprint

Microbiology

Intermediate stages in the origin of metabolism at a phosphorylating hydrothermal vent
Mrnjavac et al. — Science Advances

Molecular evidence for a relict marine community in an Antarctic Dry Valleys subglacial brine-fed system
Zoumplis et al. — Nature Geoscience

Planetary Sciences

Beyond the mass-radius plane: Integrated radiative-convective and interior structure simulations of the exoplanet continuum
Nicholls et al. — preprint

Planet Formation at Cosmic Dawn: Planetesimals in H$_2$O-Rich Disks Around Low-Mass Stars
Vorobyov et al. — preprint

ESCAPE: a small explorer mission to study the stellar drivers of exoplanet evolution
Youngblood et al. — preprint

The thermal constraint behind methane emissions into the Martian atmosphere from Earth-based studies
Zafrir et al. — Icarus

Simultaneous Mars-orbit observations reveal Kelvin-Helmholtz instability–driven bulk atmospheric ion escape
Zhang et al. — Science Advances