The mystery of the galaxy with no dark matter: solved!
A group of researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has clarified one of the mysteries of 2018 in the field of extragalactic astrophysics...
The mystery of the runaway supermassive black hole, solved
A study carried out by a team of researchers at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has shown that an unusual thin structure of stars, recently...
A recent study analyses data collected at 44 of the darkest places in the world, including the Canary Island Observatories, to develop the first complete...
The new IATec building is inaugurated in La Laguna
A building for technological cooperation with companies, with over 4,000 square metres of room available for companies who want to pursue R+D+I jointly with the...
The nights of August 11th to 12th and 12th to 13th will be the best time to observe this meteor showerPerseids 2016
As happens every year, the Perseids –also known popularly in Spain as “St Lawrence's tears”– show their peak of activity in mid-August. This year the activity...
The Nobel Laureate Claude Cohen-Tannoudji visits the IAC and the Teide Observatory
The Franco-Algerian researcher, who received the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work in developing methods to cool and trap atoms using laser radiation...
The Nobel Laureate in Physics Klaus von Klitzing visited the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias and the Teide ObservatoryPHOTONEWS
Professor Klaus von Klitzing, Nobel Laureate in Physics, visited the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), in La Laguna, and Teide Observatory on Monday...
The number of visitors to GRANTECAN is greater than 10,000 per year and a new surround exhibit is opened
The Gran Telescopio Canarias or GRANTECAN has surpassed, for the first time, the 10,000 face-to-face visits. The forecast is that by the end of the year there...