EXO-TERRA
Are there other Earths and Life in the Universe? What do they look like? Even though we have never been closer to answering
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PoET – Paranal solar ESPRESSO Telescope
The detection and characterisation of other Earths, planets with the physical conditions to hold liquid water and thus potential life-sustaining environments, is a
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FIERCE (ERC)
FIERCE aims at providing the long-needed step forward to tackle the challenges of stellar activity on the search for Exoearths. The detection and
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NIRPS
NIRPS (Near Infra-Red Planet Searcher) is a new high resolution spectrograph for the ESO-3.6m telescope in La Silla Observatory (Chile). It covers the
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ARIEL
ARIEL, the Atmospheric Remote-sensing Infrared Exoplanet Large-survey, is a space mission that will study what exoplanets are made of, how they formed and
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ANDES@ELT
ANDES is the planned high resolution optical and near-IR spectrograph for ESO’s ELT telescope. The instrument is being planned and designed by a
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CHEOPS
The Characterising Exoplanet Satellite (CHEOPS) is the first mission dedicated to the characterization of exoplanets by means of ultra-high precision photometry on bright
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Past projects
P-TUGA (Planets – Towards Understanding their General circulation Atmospheres)
There is currently a considerable effort from the planetary science community to study the dynamics of planetary atmospheres, within and beyond our Solar System. Nevertheless,
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G.Eanes: a Generation of Earth-ANalogs Exploration Spectrographs
In G.Eanes we propose to use high-resolution spectroscopy to characterize the population of Earth planet analogs orbiting around nearby stars. We are targeting
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EPIC: Exploring exoPlanets wIth CHEOPS
The Characterizing Exoplanet Satellite (CHEOPS) is the first ESA mission fully dedicated to the study of exoplanets. The Exploring exoPlanets wIth Cheops (EPIC)
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