Why does gravity have the strength it has? What exactly determines the value of the electromagnetic force? Are the laws of Physics the same in any part of the...
Estrellas Guía Laser en la Australian National University: óptica adaptativa para grandes telescopios y tecnologías I+D
El Advanced Instrumentation and Technology Centre (AITC), que forma parte de la Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics de la Universidad Nacional de...
Euclid release its first images: the dazzling edge of darkness
ESA’s Euclid space mission reveals its first full-colour images of the cosmos. Never before has a telescope been able to create such razor-sharp astronomical...
Evidence of water found in the atmosphere of an ultra-hot gas giant
Using observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an international scientific team, in which the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC)...
Exogeneous material found on the surface of asteroids Ryugu and Bennu
The two near-Earth asteroids Ryugu and Bennu, primary targets of the Hayabusa2 (JAXA) and OSIRIS-REx (NASA) space missions, keep surprising us. In two companion...
February 11th: an unceasing commitment to equality
Again this year the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) is showing its commitment to gender equality by organizing a large number of activities around...
The Euclid Consortium announces the publication of its first papers, demonstrating the space mission's ability to search for wandering planets, study the dark...
First images of asteroid Bennu obtained by the NASA OSIRIS-REx spacecraft
After two years travelling through space, the NASA OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has started to obtain images of the mission target, primitive asteroid Bennu. As part...
First science with adaptive optics at GTC with GRANCAIN, the provisional IR camera for the GTCAO system.
GTCAO is the single-conjugate aAdaptive Optics system being developed for the GTC. In its first light it will consist of a natural star system (NGS), which will...