Touching an asteroid and coming back: OSIRIS-REx and Bennu
This Tuesday October 20th at around 23.12 hr (Canary time) the NASA space probe OSIRIS-REx will make its first attempt to collect samples from the asteroid...
Tres alumnas del programa Canarias Masterclass comparten una jornada en el IAC
(In Spanish only) El pasado 13 de junio, tres estudiantes de segundo de bachillerato, pertenecientes al programa Canarias Masterclass, visitaron la sede central...
A team led from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has found the most precise way ever to measure the rate at which stars form in galaxies using...
An international scientific collaboration, in which the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) participates, has discovered two new super-Earths orbiting a...
Two stars so close that they are almost touching found inside a planetary nebula
The newly discovered binary system has one of the shortest orbital periods ever seen inside a planetary nebula. The findings of the study, led by the IAC and...
Two young researchers with doctorates from the IAC and ULL are proposed for the Nature Research Awards
Among the young women scientists proposed this year to receive the award, which recognizes the careers of researchers with leadership, and who promote the...
El Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias y el Museo de la Ciencia y el Cosmos, de Museos de Tenerife, ofrecen más de una decena de actividades divulgativas a lo...
Un planeta muy “heavy”, increíblemente metálico y denso
Científicos del IAC han participado en el descubrimiento de un planeta extrasolar inusualmente denso, con 1,5 radios terrestres, pero 8 veces más masivo que la...
Un verano más, el IAC abre sus puertas a la formación de profesorado
La sede central del Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), en La Laguna, acoge durante esta semana la IV edición del Curso Internacional de Verano...