The SPECULOOS (Search for Planets EClipsing ULtra-cOOl Stars) project searches for potentially habitable exoplanets around the smallest and coolest stars of the solar neighborhood.
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PUBLICATION NATURE ASTRONOMY
First Thermal Mapping of Temperate Earth-sized Exoplanets
The James Webb Space Telescope has, for the first time, mapped the temperature distribution of the temperate, Earth-sized rocky exoplanets TRAPPIST-1 b and c, showing that they are likely devoid of thick atmospheres and have evolved differently.
Publication Astronomy & Astrophysics
Three Earth-sized planets discovered in a compact binary system
Three Earth-sized planets discovered in the TOI-2267 binary system by ULiège researchers and their international partners offer new insights into planetary formation.
First hints of an atmosphere around a habitable planet in the TRAPPIST-1 system: a historic milestone for astronomy
Two recent international studies confirm the significance of the exoplanetary system discovered nearly ten years ago by astronomers at ULiège.
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SPECULOOS: a network of robotic telescopes in search of telluric exoplanets
The telescopes of the SPECULOOS project are located in Chile, Tenerife, and Mexico. Its main facility is the SPECULOOS-South Observatory hosted by the Cerro Paranal European Southern Observatory (ESO), in the Chilean Atacama Desert.
