Vast majority of known V-type asteroids belong to the dynamical Vesta family. A small number of V-types in the mid and outer parts of the Main Asteroid Belt is considered unrelated to the fossil planetesimal (4) Vesta. These objects have low probability of dynamically evolving from the Vesta family and show spectral properties distinct from typical

The composition of several exoplanet atmospheres has been largely debated with contrasting results in the literature. Low- and high-resolution spectroscopy offer complementary views, although sometimes appear to be in sparkling contrast. We present a new approach to simultaneously model low- and high-resolution observation and apply this method to

Research into the orbital and physical properties near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) is important as these objects can reveal information about the origin and history of our planetary system.Here we present our findings regarding the physical characteristics of the near Earth asteroids (NEAs) 2005 UD and 2001 SG286. The 2005 UD is currently a possible

During last decade there have been a tremendous increase in detection and characterization of low-mass exoplanets, reaching the Earth size and mass domain, in particular those orbiting M dwarf stars, due to their smaller sizes and masses, resulting in planet larger transit amplitude and radial velocity signals. Extremely precise instruments such as

High-resolution (HR) ground-based spectrographs have drastically improved the investigation of exoplanet atmospheres. In this scenario the near-infrared (0.9-2.45 μm) HR (R /sim 50000) spectrograph GIANO-B mounted at the Nasmyth-B focus of the Telescopio Nazionale Galileo (TNG) telescope is playing an important role.With the simultaneous detection

The Visual Monitoring Camera (VMC) is a small camera onboard Mars Express, initially intended to provide visual confirmation of the separation of the Beagle 2 lander. In 2007, a few years after the end of its original mission, VMC was turned on again to obtain full-disk images of Mars for outreach purposes (Ormston et al., 2011). As VMC obtained