Unveiling new Earths among the “noise” of the stars

First data gathered with ESPRESSO, an instrument built with the participation of Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (IA), help clarify a debate about an hypothetical planetary system. Read more

18 December, 201929 January, 2021

CHEOPS space telescope will be launched 17 December

Some members of Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço and DEIMOS Engenharia actively involved in this mission will be available at the Porto Planetarium, next 16th of December, at 14:00. Read more

12 December, 201929 January, 2021

TESS reveals an improbable planet

Using asteroseismology, a team, led by an Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (IA) researcher, studied two red-giant stars known to have exoplanets, and in one of them found a seemingly improbable planet. Read more

29 October, 201929 January, 2021

Astrophysicists use artificial intelligence to determine exoplanets sizes

A team of Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço researchers developed a way to constrain the radius of an exoplanet knowing its mass, using a machine learning technique. Read more

11 October, 201929 January, 2021

From Venus to other worlds

Unprecedented precision in the measurements of winds on Venus made use of an instrument built to study exoplanets, in a work led by researchers of Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (IA). Read more

10 October, 201929 January, 2021

Atmosfera de Plutão, observada pela sonda New Horizons, da NASA, em julho de 2015.

On Pluto the Winter is approaching, and the atmosphere is vanishing into frost

A study that gathers fourteen years of observations of Pluto had the participation of Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (IA). Read more

10 May, 201929 January, 2021

Imagem artística do sistema Kepler-1658.

Kepler space telescope confirms its first detection, ten years later

The confirmation of exoplanet candidate Kepler-1658 b, a hot jupiter 2545 light-years away, had the participation of a researcher from Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (IA). Read more

5 March, 201929 January, 2021

Imagem artística de uma super-Terra em órbita de uma estrela anã vermelha.

A super earth in the Solar System’s neighborhood

The discovery of super earth Gl411b, only eight light-years away, with three times the mass of the Earth, had the participation of Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (IA) researchers. Read more

19 February, 201929 January, 2021

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