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Third school year travelling in Space on a ride with books

Motivating children and young people to Astronomy and Space Sciences through inspiring readings is the goal of Ler+ Espaço (‘Read more Space’), a national project on its third round, in partnership with Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (IA). Read more

Imagem artística do exoplaneta aquático LHS 1140 b

16 October, 202021 October, 2020

A water world in another planetary system

An international team, including several researchers from Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (IA), studied in detail the LHS 1140 system and Read more

28 September, 202021 October, 2020

First results from CHEOPS reveal peculiar star and extreme exoplanet

The exoplanet WASP-189 b, detected by a team including several Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (IA) researchers, has a temperature of Read more

26 August, 202026 August, 2020

New study questions decades of research on the evolution of spiral galaxies

Previous studies on the formation and evolution of spiral galaxies might have been based on a wrong assumption, suggests a team of researchers of Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (IA). Read more

18 August, 202025 September, 2020

Elementary school teachers participated in an astronomy research and outreach project

The results of the citizen science project CoAstro, a partnership between the Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (IA), the Science Faculty of the University of Porto and the Porto Planetarium – Ciência Viva Center, were recentely presented. Read more

Conceção artística do telescópio Euclid. Na imagem em fundo, do enxame de galáxias Abell 2744.

13 August, 202011 August, 2020

Euclid is closer to revealing the geometry and history of the Cosmos

The two scientific instruments of the Euclid mission will be integrated with the space telescope. Portugal, through the Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (IA), takes part in the planning and in the future science of this ambitious mission. Read more

5 August, 20205 August, 2020

Decades-long deep giant cloud disruption discovered on Venus

A planetary-scale cloud discontinuity has been periodically lashing the depths of the thick blanket of clouds on Venus for at least 35 years, says a study with the participation of the Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (IA). Read more

Conceção artística do telescópio espacial Athena

16 July, 20209 September, 2020

Portugal leads the development of a system for the space telescope that will scan the Universe in X-rays

The Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (IA) won the contract of the European Space Agency to develop a precision optical system for the future high-energy space telescope. Read more

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