The exhibition, opened at the Museo de las Ciencias de Castilla-La Mancha, brings the search for Earth-like planets closer to the public and displays technological components developed by Spanish centres involved in the mission. The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) is participating in the temporary exhibition ‘In search of new Earths’, a display dedicated to the European space mission PLATO and to one of the major challenges in astrophysics today: the search for and characterisation of habitable Earth-like planets beyond the Solar System. The exhibition, which can be visited until

The Plenary Hall of the Palencia City Council hosted the presentation of the program of events surrounding the upcoming eclipse. This ambitious program of educational and artistic events was presented by the mayor of Palencia, Miriam Andrés Prieto; the director of the Canary Islands Institute of Astrophysics (IAC), Valentín Martínez Pillet; the councilor for Cultural Identity, Tourism, and Festivals, Francisco Fernández Asensio; and the deputy director of the IAC, Eva Villaver, a native of Palencia. In anticipation of the upcoming eclipse on August 12, Palencia will become Spain’s scientific

The renowned researcher, invited by the IAC as part of the Fundación Occident Visiting Researchers programme, will analyse the unresolved questions that still surround the origin and evolution of the Universe. On 10 July, at 17:00, the Museo de la Ciencia y el Cosmos will host the public lecture “Cosmology: the nightmare of contemporary Physics?”, delivered by the distinguished astronomer and cosmologist Julio Navarro, Professor at the University of Victoria, in Canada. The event forms part of his stay at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) within the Fundación Occident Visiting

The free-registration initiative brings together specialists from research centres, universities, institutions and companies at IACTEC on 2 and 3 July to address the role of astrophysics as a scientific, technological and economic driver. The IACTEC building, located in the Las Mantecas Technology Park in La Laguna, is hosting from today until tomorrow, 3 July, the course "Astrophysics as a science and driver of economic development". The initiative forms part of the Summer Courses of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid in San Lorenzo de El Escorial and, for the first time, is being

Scientific staff from the Institute will present around thirty scientific contributions, including eight invited talks, at the annual meeting of the European Astronomical Society (EAS) The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) is taking part this week in the annual meeting of the European Astronomical Society (EAS 2026), the largest European conference dedicated to astronomy and astrophysics, which is being held from 29 June to 3 July at the SwissTech Convention Centre in Lausanne, Switzerland. The event brings together thousands of specialists, approximately 1,400 participants