An international team of astronomers, including investigators from the IAC, are the first to detect a black hole thousands of light years above the plane of the...

After two years travelling through space, the NASA OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has started to obtain images of the mission target, primitive asteroid Bennu. As part...

The new instrument MEGARA, installed last March on the Gran Telescopio CANARIAS (GTC), at the Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos (Garafía, La Palma), last...

The Pole Star and the Moon were used to test the instrument

A team of astronomers and engineers from the IAC, ESO, and the INAF-Rome Observatory have achieved first light and successful commissioning of a new "Laser...

ESPRESSO (Echelle SPectrograph for Rocky Exoplanet and Stable Spectroscopic Observations) on ESO’s very Large Telescope has made its first successful...

The instrument, which was taken on May 19th from the IAC Hedaquarters, in La Laguna, to the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory, on La Palma, passed its first...