Since 1995, more than 140 planets around solar-type stars have been discovered. The great success of the first decade of observational research in exoplanets...
Searches for Technosignatures: The State of the Profession
The small size of the SETI workforce is a major problem for NASA and the search for life elsewhere in the universe. The Astro2020 Decadal should address this...
Searching for a second occultation in EPIC 204376071
EPIC 204376071 is a young ($\sim$10 Myr) M star (estimated mass 0.16 M$_\odot$, and radius 0.63 R$_\odot$), probable member of the Upper Sco association, that...
Searching for biomarkers in the potentially habitable atmospheric zones of Y dwarfs
We report on an ongoing search for biomarkers in the potentially habitable atmospheres of a sample of a dozen Y dwarfs with Teff estimated at around or below...
Searching for dust orbiting around activated asteroid 596 Scheila by means of stellar occultations
596 Scheila is a main belt asteroid classified from 2010, when it presented cometary appearance, like a Main Belt Comet (MBC). We only known around a dozen of...
Searching for emission-line galaxies: The UCM survey
We are carrying out a long-term project with the main purposes of finding and analyzing low metallicity galaxies. A very small number of very low metallicity...
Searching for emission-line objects in external galaxies
We are carrying on several surveys in nearby galaxies aiming to find, catalogue and study old and young emission-line objects as H II regions, Planetary Nebulae...