Vladimir S. Airapetian et al 2017 ApJL 836 L3

Many Earth-like exoplanets around M and K stars will lose a significant fraction of their atmospheric oxygen and nitrogen due to XUV radiation, rendering them uninhabitable within a few 10–100 Myr.

Klaus Scherer et al 2016 ApJ 833 38

A careful treatment of the change in entropy across shocks is developed in this work, providing a better picture of how fluid behaves at the interface of the heliosphere (or an astrosphere) with the ISM.

Daniel Foreman-Mackey et al 2016 AJ 152 206

A fully automated search for long-period exoplanets with only 1 or 2 transits in the archival Kepler light curves of 40,000 Sun-like target stars found 16 long-period exoplanet candidates.

Ken’ichi Tatematsu et al 2017 ApJS 228 12

Observations of 13 Planck cold clumps with the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope/SCUBA-2 and the Nobeyama 45-m radio telescope allow for investigation of the starless clumps’ chemical evolutionary stages.

S. Xu (许偲艺) et al 2017 ApJL 836 L7

The discovery of the accretion of a Kuiper-Belt-Object analog onto the atmosphere of a white dwarf reveal that such objects could deliver volatiles to terrestrial planets beyond the solar system.

Sudip Mandal et al 2016 ApJ 828 72

Observations from HINODE and SDO of longitudinal waves in a coronal loop suggest that footpoint heating can generate a slow wave which then reflects back and forth in the loop before fading.