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- Snow in an Infant Planetary System, ESO
- Reports Detail Mars Rover Clues to Atmosphere's Past, NASA
- Galactic cosmic ray induced radiation dose on terrestrial exoplanets, astro-ph

- Collision parameters governing water delivery and water loss in early planetary systems, astro-ph
- Small hydrocarbon molecules in cloud-forming Brown Dwarf and giant gas planet atmospheres, astro-ph
- Making systems of Super Earths by inward migration of planetary embryos, astro-ph

- Overprotection may be hampering hunt for Mars life, new Scientist
- Manganese-oxidizing photosynthesis before the rise of cyanobacteria, PNAS
- The overprotection of Mars, Nature Geoscience
- Travelogue from Young Researchers in the Field, Astrobiology Magazine

- Luminosity of young Jupiters revisited. Massive cores make hot planets, astro-ph
- A dynamically-packed planetary system around GJ667C with three super-Earths in its habitable zone, astro-ph
- How close is Earth to a runaway greenhouse?, astro-ph
- The Formation and Dynamics of Super-Earth Planets, astro-ph
- Compositional diversity in the atmospheres of hot Neptunes, with application to GJ 436b, astro-ph

- KOI-127b: a very low-albedo, Saturn-mass transiting planet around a metal rich solar-like star, astro-ph
- The effect of rotation and tidal heating on the thermal lightcurves of Super Mercuries, astro-ph
- Lucky Imaging of transiting planet host stars with LuckyCam, astro-ph
- The future of the Sun: an evolved solar twin revealed by CoRoT, astro-ph

- Deep fracture fluids isolated in the crust since the Precambrian era, Nature
- An Understanding of the Shoulder of Giants: Jovian Planets around Late K Dwarf Stars and the Trend with Stellar Mass, astro-ph
- Evidence for Microbial Carbon and Sulfur Cycling in Deeply Buried Ridge Flank Basalt, Science

- Characterizing Exoplanets in the Visible and Infrared: A Spectrometer Concept for the EChO Space Mission, astro-ph
- Seed particle formation for silicate dust condensation by SiO nucleation, astro-ph
- TAU: A 1D radiative transfer code for transmission spectroscopy of extrasolar planet atmospheres, astro-ph

- Hydrogen Isotopes in Lunar Volcanic Glasses and Melt Inclusions Reveal a Carbonaceous Chondrite Heritage, Science
- Element abundances, patterns, and mobility in Nakhlite Miller Range 03346 and implications for aqueous alteration, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
- Comparing Climates: From Earth to Exoplanets, Astrobiology Magazine

- Spectroscopy of Faint Kepler Mission Exoplanet Candidate Host Stars, astro-ph
- Photophoretic separation of metals and silicates: the formation of Mercury like planets and metal depletion in chondrites, astro-ph
- Bacteria Lofted To High Altitudes by Hurricanes, AGU
- Microbiome of the upper troposphere: Species composition and prevalence, effects of tropical storms, and atmospheric implications, PNAS

- Two Super-Earths Orbiting the Solar Analogue HD41248 on the edge of a 7:5 Mean Motion Resonance, astro-ph
- Close Stellar Encounters in Young, Substructured, Dissolving Star Clusters: Statistics and Effects on Planetary Systems, astro-ph
- The 2011 October Draconids outburst. I. Orbital elements, meteoroid fluxes and 21P/Giacobini-Zinner delivered mass to Earth, astro-ph