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CHEOPS space telescope will be launched 17 December
Published 12 December, 2019 in Outreach

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... read more ❯
TESS reveals an improbable planet
Published 29 October, 2019 in Outreach

Using asteroseismic1 data from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team, led by Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (IA) researcher Tiago Campante, studied the red-giant stars... read more ❯
Astrophysicists use artificial intelligence to determine exoplanets sizes
Published 11 October, 2019 in Outreach

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. A team... read more ❯
From Venus to other worlds
Published 10 October, 2019 in Outreach

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... read more ❯
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