The IAC participates in a complex observation campaign to unravel the enigmatic ‘Neptunian desert’
Advertised on 09/16/2025 – 12:16:42 An international scientific team, including members of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), has launched an ambitious program to map exoplanets located around the Neptunian Desert —a region around stars...
Astronomers find missing link to Galaxy’s most common planets
One of the biggest recent surprises in astronomy is the discovery that most stars like the Sun harbor a planet between the size of Earth and Neptune within the orbit of Mercury — sizes and orbits absent from our solar system. These ‘super-Earths’ and...