Since it started in 2017 this technological and business unit of the IAC has hosted over 20 university students for short term stays. Thanks to this training...
IAU Symposium: Professional and Amateur astronomers, united in the same cause
During the past week over a hundred specialists from all over the world have been meeting in La Laguna to discuss the study, in different areas of astrophysics...
Ice and organic compounds found on the surface of the asteroid Themis
A thin layer of ice and complex organic molecules covers the surface the asteroid Themis (the largest of a family of asteroids to which it gives its name), a...
Ideas for future NASA missions searching for extraterrestrial civilizations
A researcher at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) is the lead author of a study with proposals for “technosignatures” -evidence for the use of...
Investigaciones realizadas desde el Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos demuestran que el objeto transneptuniano 2005 FY9 es muy similar al histórico último...
Identified around galactic halos, a fraction of the "missing" normal matter
An International team of scientists, which includes Ricardo Génova Santos of the Institute of Astrophysics of the Canaries (IAC), has identified in the data...
Ignacio Cirac visited the IAC and the Canary Observatories
The Spanish Physicist, winner of the Principe de Asturias Prize, gave a lecture at the Institute about the so-called “second quantum revolution” and its...
Ignacio Cirac visited the IAC and the Canary Observatories
The Spanish Physicist, winner of the Principe de Asturias Prize, gave a lecture at the Institute about the so-called “second quantum revolution” and its...
II Congreso Internacional sobre ciencia con el Gran Telescopio Canarias
Se celebrará en México del 16 al 18 de febrero y las sesiones se dedicarán a la Ciencia que se hará con los instrumentos de primera luz del GTC y con el Gran...