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James Webb Space Telescope offers best glimpse into the ice of the early Solar System
Published 19 December, 2024 in Outreach

A team that includes an Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço researcher used the James Webb Space Telescope to identify, categorize its chemistry, dynamics and place of birth of... read more ❯
A rare Venus solar transit helps unravel atmospheres outside the Solar System
Published 5 December, 2024 in Outreach

Em junho de 2012, a sonda Hinode (da JAXA e da NASA), dedicada ao estudo do Sol, observou o trânsito do planeta Vénus diante do disco solar. Créditos: JAXA/NASA/Lockheed Martin

A team led by the Institute of Astrophysics and Space Sciences (IA) analysed data from this century’s last Venus solar transit and validated methods to study the atmosphere of Earth-sized... read more ❯
Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço paves the way in the field of Exoclimatology
Published 5 September, 2024 in Outreach

Three papers about “hot jupiter” WASP-76 b, led by Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço researchers, will be the foundation for understanding the global climate of a giant exoplanet In... read more ❯
Six new worlds discovered adrift in a cradle of stars
Published 27 August, 2024 in Outreach

Conceção artística de um planeta nómada, ou errante, com a nebulosa NGC 1333 apresentada em fundo. Os planetas errantes, n

An international team with the participation of the Institute of Astrophysics and Space Sciences (IA) used the James Webb telescope to find planetary-mass objects, but freely moving in interstellar space. Learn... read more ❯
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