Join us for this months news episode where the Exocast team delve into new discoveries, characterisation, and astrobiology investigations to learn all about the latest research being published in exoplanets.

• Andrew takes us through some new astrobiology work “Metabolically diverse primordial microbial communities in Earth’s oldest seafloor-hydrothermal jasper“ from Papineau et al. 2022

• Hannah covers the latest in characterisation with “A New Analysis of 8 Spitzer Phase Curves and Hot Jupiter Population Trends: Qatar-1b, Qatar-2b, WASP-52b, WASP-34b, and WASP-140b” from May et al. 2022

• Hugh looks into some new discoveries from “TESS Hunt for Young and Maturing Exoplanets (THYME) VI: an 11 Myr Giant Planet Transiting a Very Low Mass Star in Lower Centaurus Crux“ by Mann et al. 2022

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