Astronomers discover a pulsating teardrop-shaped star
An international team of astronomers, including researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, has found for the first time an unusual star that...
Astronomers discover a surprising system of six exoplanets which orbit rhythmically
An international collaboration in which researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias take part, has discovered a unique planetary system made up of...
Astronomers discover a white dwarf formed by the merger of two stars
An international team of researchers led by the University of Warwick, with a member who is a scientist at the IAC has discovered white dwarf with unusual...
The black holes at the centres of galaxies are the most mysterious objects in the Universe, not only because of the huge quantities of material within them...
Astronomers discover that the first galaxies had very different shapes to today's galaxies
Thanks to images obtained by the James Webb Telescope (JWST), an international scientific team in which the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC)...
Astronomers find a black hole which rotates highly inclined to its orbit
Astronomers have found a black hole which challenges current theoretical models for the formation of these compact objects, using telescopes at the Roque de los...
Astronomers find a galaxy unchanged since the early universe
Researchers at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) confirm the first detection of a relic galaxy with the Hubble Space Telescope. The results of this...
Astronomers find a galaxy unchanged since the early universe
Researchers at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) confirm the first detection of a relic galaxy with the Hubble Space Telescope. The results of this...
Astronomers find a nearby system of exoplanets with a potentially inhabitable world
A team of astronomers, led by researchers at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias has found three new planets orbiting a star, one of which might have...