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...
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 for inflows and outflows in the nearby black hole transient Swift J1727.8-162
The transient Swift J1727.8-162 is the latest member of the X-ray binary black hole family to be discovered. They are formed by a black hole and a low-mass star...
Evidence of the impact of quasar driven outflows on recent star formation
We present the results of our spatially resolved investigation into the interplay between the ages of the stellar populations and the kinematics of the warm...
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)...
From 6 to 9 June, IACTEC is hosting the consortium meeting of the European Space Agency's Ariel mission, dedicated to the characterisation of exoplanet...
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...