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...
Visit of the Vice-president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
A delegation from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and the National Astronomical Observatory of China (NAOCC) have visited the Headquarters of the...
Wayne Rosing visits the IAC and the Canary Observatories
Last week, the founder of the Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network, one of whose telescopes is at the Teide Observatory (Tenerife), paid a visit to...
“The Lost Honour of Henrietta Leavitt” now on the IAC video channels
Within the activities organized to celebrate the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, and International Women’s Day, the Instituto de Astrofísica de...