Astrobiology

The effect of lightning on the atmospheric chemistry of exoplanets and potential biosignatures
Barth et al. – preprint

Detectability of Surface Biosignatures for Directly Imaged Rocky Exoplanets
Borges et al. – Astrobiology

Multi-Technique Characterization of 3.45 Ga Microfossils on Earth: A Key Approach to Detect Possible Traces of Life in Returned Samples from Mars
Clodoré et al. – Astrobiology

Heating of the Atmospheres of Short-orbit Exoplanets by Their Rapid Orbital Motion through an Extreme Space Environment
Cohen et al. – The Astrophysical Journal

SHERLOC Raman Mineral Class Detections of the Mars 2020 Crater Floor Campaign
Corpolongo et al. – Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets

Finding the ET Signal from the Cosmic Noise
Davis – preprint

Detection of indigenous organic matter in rocks from the interpretation of carbon molecular forms in the laser-induced plasma
García-Gómez et al. – Spectrochimica Acta Part B: Atomic Spectroscopy

Limited recharge of the southern highlands aquifer on early Mars
Hiatt et al. – Icarus

The Solar Neighborhood LI: A Variability Survey of Nearby M Dwarfs with Planets from Months to Decades with TESS and the CTIO/SMARTS 0.9 m
Kar et al. – preprint

NASA Exoplanet Exploration Program (ExEP) Mission Star List for the Habitable Worlds Observatory (2023)
Mamajek et al. – preprint

A uGMRT search for radio emission from planets around evolved stars
Narang et al. – preprint

Analysis of Early Iron Sulfide, Carbonate, and Phosphate Mineral Analogues Produced by Flow-Driven Precipitation in a Microchannel
Pital et al. – Astrobiology

Trapped Water on Silicates in the Laboratory and in Astrophysical Environments
Potapov et al. – preprint

Evidence of Sulfate-Rich Fluid Alteration in Jezero Crater Floor, Mars
Siljeström et al. – Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets

Cosmic dust fertilization of glacial prebiotic chemistry on early Earth
Walton et al. – Nature Astronomy

Enabling Data Discovery with the Astrobiology Resource Metadata Standard
Wolfe et al. – Astrobiology

Biochemistry

Base Pairing Promoted the Self-Organization of Genetic Coding, Catalysis, and Free-Energy Transduction
Carter – Life (Basel, Switzerland)

Biology

Opinion: The Key Steps in the Origin of Life to the Formation of the Eukaryotic Cell
Brunk et al. – Life (Basel, Switzerland)

Life, its definition, origin, evolution, and four-dimensional hierarchical structure
Mikhailovsky – Biosystems

Chemistry

Three Biopolymers and Origin of Life Scenarios
Agmon – Life (Basel, Switzerland)

Prebiotically plausible chemoselective pantetheine synthesis in water
Fairchild et al. – Science

Constraint on an RNA world on montmorillonite clay
Mizuuchi – Biophysical Journal

Physics

Enantioselective Adsorption on Magnetic Surfaces
Safari et al. – Advanced Materials

Platenary science

Water Vapour Transit Ambiguities for Habitable M-Earths
Macdonald et al. – preprint

On the Ocean Conditions of Hycean Worlds
Rigby et al. – preprint