Heller, R.: Habitability of early Earth: Liquid water under a faint young Sun and tidal heating due to a closer Moon. General Meeting of the SPP 1833 "Building a Habitable Earth", online (2021)
Heller, R.: Challenges of Validating Earth-like Transiting Planets Around Sun-like Stars. Splinter session "Exploring the diversity of extrasolar planets”, Virtual Meeting of the German Astronomical Society (2020)
Heller, R.: Detecting shallow transits with smart force: the Transit Least Squares (TLS) algorithm. PLATO Extrasolar Planets 2019: Single, Shallow & Strange Transits, Warwick , UK (2019)
Heller, R.: Extrasolare Planeten. Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung, Schülerbesuch der 11. Klasse des Felix-Klein-Gymnasium Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany (2019)
Heller, R.: In situ-Erkundung extrasolarer Planeten Science Fiction oder Science Fact? Vortragsreihe "Extrasolare Planeten, Astrobiologie und die Frage nach Leben im Universum" der Akademie der Wissenschaften, Hamburg, Germany (2019)
Heller, R.: How to park a hot Jupiter at 0.05 AU around a sun-like star for billions of years. Planet Formation and Evolution 2019, Rostock, Germany (2019)
The dwarf planet is a bizarre, cryovolcanic world. However, the organic deposits discovered on its surface so far are unlikely to originate from its interior.
The Uranian magnetic field is more expansive than previously thought, according to newly analyzed data from Voyager 2, making it easier to search for moons with oceans.