The Planetary Society , the largest independent organization dedicated to space exploration—founded in 1980 by Carl Sagan, Bruce Murray, and Louis Friedman— has announced the award of its STEP (Science and Technology Empowered by the Public) Grants , a competitive program that funds innovative projects in science, technology, planetary defense, and the search for life. Among the three selected projects is AsteroiDB, an open platform for collecting, sharing, and analyzing photometric observations of asteroids. The project is led by Miguel R. Alarcón, Director of Scientific Operations at Light

The event also hosted the first annual meeting of the CIARMA network, which was established as a result of the project’s activities with European project managers from the Canary Islands. The headquarters of the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias (IAC) in La Laguna hosted yesterday the 2nd Regional Meeting of ExGal-Twin, a Horizon Europe project coordinated by the IAC. The meeting was entitled “Innovation in project management in the Canary Islands (II): Artificial Intelligence and New Trends” and brought together professionals in European project management from across the archipelago. It

An international team composed of Drs. Sylvain G. Korzennik, from the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian , and Antonio Eff-Darwich Peña, from the University of La Laguna and the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, has published a pioneering study aimed at improving our understanding of the Sun’s internal structure. The work, published in The Astrophysical Journal , stands out for its use of exceptionally long helioseismic time series, exceeding twenty-five years of continuous observations, to analyze the deepest layers of the Sun. Helioseismology is the study of patterns of