Ignasi Ribas receives 2.5 million euros from the EU to multiply by 10 the capacity to discover planets like ours and determine if there is life on them. Since 1995, Earthlings have built increasingly powerful telescopes that have allowed us to discover the overwhelming number of 5,602 exoplanets beyond our solar system.

Among all of them, only a few dozen have the right size, mass and rock composition, and even fewer orbit stars like the Sun. Ribas' project will last five years of creating digital simulations of the most interesting stars with all their spots and faculae for a few months before, for example, the transit of a possible planet, says Ribas. The astrophysicist says: “As we will have an artificial intelligence, we will be able to do millions of simulations and tell what others are the presence of a planet,” Ribas explains The project is called Spot Spot Spot and will be led by the Institute of Spatial Studies of Catalonia.