On Exocast-45d we bring you the news from across exoplanet research this month with new discoveries, characterisations, habitability and formation papers.

• In America, WFIRST has been renamed the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope in honour to the pioneering “Mother Hubble”, while in Europe the LIFE mission kicked off.
• We have lots of new exoplanets being discovered (from TESS, NGTS, WASP and RVs), and un-discovered, as was the case for Fomalhaut b.
• Characterisation studies have also been busy this month with three papers released looking at data on the hot Jupiter WASP-76b, an unusual transmission spectrum for KELT-11b, and the He atmosphere of GJ3470b gets another look from more data.
• Formation has also been a hot topic and we look at a new paper from pioneers in the field looking to explain the formation of moons around giant planets like Jupiter.
• And in habitability we delve into a new Bayesian approach to the problem of timelines and probability for the Earth, plus a look at Venus’ habitable past.