Articles

by Matías Díaz, Ph.D. student at University of Chile. Edited by Zaira M. Berdiñas and John Strachan. As an astronomer your life consists (mostly) on developing computer software, writing papers to show the results of your research and […]

by Dr. Fabo Feng of  the University of Hertfordshire. Edited by Zaira M. Berdiñas and John Strachan. As humans, we have an innate curiosity about the origins and development of life on Earth. We know that terrestrial life is […]

by Dr. Rubén Herrero-Illana of  European Southern Observatory (ESO). Edited by Zaira M. Berdiñas Hey, wake up! It’s already 6am and the taxi will arrive in 15 minutes to take you to the airport. You checked […]

by Prof. Pierre Kervella of  Universidad de Chile and Observatoire de Paris.  Edited by James S. Jenkins and Zaira M. Berdiñas Alpha Centauri and Proxima are located respectively at 4.37 and 4.24 light-years, a bit more […]

edited by Zaira M. Berdiñas and John Strachan. I’ve recently visited the Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA-CSIC) located in Granada (Spain) and there I met up with Pedro Amado. I was curious about CARMENES, […]

Perhaps the least known star in the Red Dots campaign, Ross 154, is a rapidly rotating M dwarf star that shows elevated activity levels and and flares on its surface. This makes the Red Dots […]

by Paul Gilster, writer and author of  “Centauri Dreams”. Edited by Zaira M. Berdiñas The Red Dots campaign to study Proxima Centauri, Barnard’s Star and Ross 154 gives us a cannily chosen set of targets. All […]

Following the announcement of the discovery of Proxima b, the Red Dots campaign aims at detecting additional small planetary sized companions to Proxima Centauri. But we already have hints of variability in the star’s radial […]

by Prof. Avi Loeb of  Harvard University.  Edited by Zaira M. Berdiñas Is there extra-terrestrial life just outside the solar system? The recent discovery of Proxima b1, a habitable Earth-mass planet next to the nearest star, opened […]