In this talk, I will present the highlights from our recent study of 22 local (z < 0.025) type-1 LINERs from the Palomar Survey, on the basis of optical long...
Comets may have played an important role in depositing the organic matter that, between 4,6 and 3,6 billion of years ago, allowed the formation of life on the...
Organic materials and ices in the outer solar system
The composition of the outer solar system is of particular interest because it holds the key to understanding the chemical evolution of the Solar System...
Origin of space and time in a non-commutative cosmological model
The amount of baryons seen in the local Universe falls short by a factor2-5 if compared to the amount of detected baryons at intermediate (z~2)or high (z~1,100)...
Origin of two primitive NEAs: (3200) Phaethon and 1998 RQ36
Understanding the composition and the nature of any asteroid approaching the Earth, and consequently potentially hazardous, is a matter of general interest...
The standard scientific operations of the instrument OSIRIS will start at the GTC by mid March. The first tests of the instrument once mounted on the telescope...