The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) will host the Gaia Alerts 2025 conference, the 16th Gaia Science Alerts and ACME Time-Domain Workshop, from 29 September to 3 October 2025 at IACTEC in La Laguna (Tenerife). The meeting marks a milestone moment for the Gaia mission , celebrating the end of its science observations, and convenes the international community to chart the next decade of discovery in time-domain and multimessenger astrophysics. Time-domain astronomy has rapidly become a cornerstone of modern astrophysics, revealing the dynamic Universe, from stellar explosions and

El Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias organiza visitas guiadas y participa en la Feria de las Vocaciones Científicas de Canarias dentro de la Noche Europea de los Investigadores de la Macaronesia El Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) participará en MacaroNight 2025, la Noche Europea de los Investigadores e investigadoras de la Macaronesia, con dos actividades dirigidas a estudiantes de diferentes niveles educativos para acercar la astrofísica y fomentar las vocaciones científicas entre la juventud canaria. Visitas guiadas a la sede central del IAC Los días 22 y 23 de septiembre, el

The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) announces the arrival of the Astronomy on Tapinternational talk series in Spain, with its very first edition to be held in Tenerife. This outreach initiative, which was created in the United States and has since expanded worldwide, will now take place in the Canary Islands under the name "Astronomy on Tap – Canary Islands” and the local nickname “AstroTragos,” and is carried out within the framework of the EDUCADO and ExGal-Twin projects at IAC. The debut event will be held at the Búho Club (Calle Catedral, 3, La Laguna, Tenerife) on Thursday

Astronomers have used telescopes around the world, includingthe Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC or Grantecan) at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory on La Palma, to study the asteroid 1998 KY26, revealing it to be almost three times smaller and spinning much faster than previously thought. The asteroid is the 2031 target for Japan’s Hayabusa2 extended mission. The new observations offer key information for the mission’s operations at the asteroid. “We found that the reality of the object is completely different from what it was previously described as,” says astronomer Toni Santana-Ros, a

The Museum of Science and the Cosmos (MCC), part of the Autonomous Organization of Museums and Centers of the Cabildo of Tenerife, will host the second session of the scientific outreach series “From the Sky to the Thesis” on Thursday, September 25, at 4:30 p.m. The series is organized in collaboration with the University of La Laguna (ULL) and the Institute of Astrophysics of the Canary Islands (IAC). The initiative, promoted by doctoral students from the IAC, seeks to bring the main topics of research in astrophysics closer to the public, told in the first person by those who develop them

From September 15 to 19, the Institute of Computational Cosmology (ICC) at Durham University (United Kingdom) will host the Durham Advanced School on Astrophysical Simulations, an educational event that brings together 50 participants and a dozen international speakers to explore the most advanced techniques in astrophysical simulation. The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has a strong presence at this event, with 12 participants—including several PhD students—and three guest speakers: Arianna di Cintio, Claudio Dalla Vecchia, and Eva Durán Camacho, the latter a postdoctoral