The Sun, our star, is not only the source of the electromagnetic radiation that bathes our planet; it also sweeps the Earth's magnetosphere with its wind and heliospheric magnetic field. It frequently sends huge ropes of magnetized plasma, the coronal mass ejections, that can hit us and cause solar storms, thus constituting a serious potential

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is a NASA mission that started scientific operations in July 2018. Over two years it will cover the entire sky, searching for planetary transits in stars with magnitudes brighter than 14. Data covering the first 3 weeks of the mission were released in September 2018, and within days a super-earth

Grants for the training of doctors in Severo Ochoa Research Centers and Centers of Excellence

The search for and characterization of exoplanets are among the most active and rapidly advancing fields in modern astrophysics. The initial caution after the first bewildering discoveries has given way to a succession of discoveries with neck-breaking pace. To date, more than 4000 exoplanets have been detected, spanning wide ranges in physical

Sunspots are the most evident manifestations of solar magnetism, and oscillations are a fundamental physical process taking place in them. Despite the efforts over the last 50 years, a global picture of sunspot oscillations remains elusive. The goal of this project is to develop a thorough analysis of sunspot waves, from the solar interior to the

The project aims to observationally exploit X-ray binaries, a research line in which our group it is one of the world leaders. These stellar systems, composed of a black hole (or a neutron star) and a solar-like star (companion), are unique laboratories to explore the behaviour of the matter and radiation under the most extreme gravitational fields