With more than 3000 detected exoplanets it is now clear that planet formation is a natural outcome of stellar formation. However, the mechanisms by which...

Shortly after the discovery of the first extra-solar planet, many studies showed that stars hosting giant planets have significant metallicity excess when...

Series: XXVIII Canary Islands Winter School of Astrophysics: Solar System Exploration Topic: Planetary Atmospheres. Lecture 2: Radiative transfer, composition...

The vision for the use of the WHT in the coming decade is taking shape. A key element is the construction and deployment of WEAVE, a wide-field massive...

I present a general overview of the PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars (PLATO) space mission. PLATO was approved by ESA’s Science Programme Committee...

Current scientific cosmology hosts a plurality of scenarios that articulate in different ways the precision astronomy's observations. However, this palette of...

The identification and investigation of red supergiants (RSGs) in the Local Group and beyond are extremely important for understanding massive star evolution...

We will start by recalling the effects of rotation on stellar evolution and briefly explain its implementation in a stellar evolution code. We will present a...

This paper puts forward a possible new indicator for the presence of moderately advanced civilizations on transiting exoplanets. The idea is to examine the...