The SPECULOOS ( S earch for P lanets EC lipsing UL tra-c OO l S tars) project searches for potentially habitable exoplanets around the smallest and coolest stars of the solar neighborhood.
Didier Queloz, winner of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics and collaborator in ULiège's SPECULOOS consortium, will talk about new perspectives on the origins of life presented in the light of recent experiments. (FRENCH)
The system, named TOI-2096, consists of two planets orbiting a cool star in a synchronized dance at approximately 150 light-years from Earth.