A nice little Bayesian look for planets orbiting low-luminosity giants, with new planetary systems, planet confirmations, and other interesting cases. We uncover some evidence for the same two giant planet populations that we found orbiting dwarf stars! arxiv.org/abs/2509.02507

Our continuing study of the atmosphere of the ultrahot Neptune LTT9779b led by our postdoc Dr Saha. This world is the gift that keeps on giving, a priceless laboratory that is teaching us about the basic conditions of planet formation and evolution!! arxiv.org/abs/2506.17550

Millarca Valenzuela kicking off the Astrobiology in Chile 2024 meeting in the Termas el Corazón, talking about Meteorites and Meteorites in Chile!!

Throughout the years I have had the pleasure to meet, and indeed work with, some brilliant and motivated young researchers, and today another from our group earned his stripes. Congratulations Dr. Vines on some excellent work this afternoon, and over the past few years!!

Cue the hyperbolic overreactions to the ‘possible’ discovery of debris from a ‘possible’ interstellar interloper that made its way to Earth. Remember, we have been chemically studying known extrasolar systems for years, with hundreds of ALMA papers on the subject for example!!

New York Times article on the high albedo of the enigmatic planet LTT9779b!! nytimes.com/2023/07/27/scien…

A rare planet we discovered a few years back has now given us more insights into the nature of hot Neptunes. We turned the eye of @ESA_CHEOPS to LTT9779b, Cuancoa, and found a world likely covered with metallic clouds, possibly hosting titanium rain!! esa.int/Science_Exploration/…

Our discovery of arguably the galaxy’s rarest known planet LTT9779b, has led to us being able to help rename the system. In honour of the indigenous U’wa people of the North Eastern Andes of Colombia, the star Uúba in Sculptor is orbited by the majestic Cuancoá!! #nameexoworlds

A day in the life of an astronomer, five hours with three back to back meetings, science team, communications, and institutional admin…this is what life gets like towards the end!!

A big day for our young Institute of Astrophysical Studies (IEA) @AstroUDP with the very first graduated doctoral student, Dr. Kriti Kamal Gupta!! Congratulations to Kriti and her supervisor Prof. Ricci 🎉🍾🎉🍾

NASA’s Spitzer, TESS Find Potentially Volcano-Covered Earth-Size World nasa.gov/feature/goddard/202…