ESPRESSO confirms Proxima b with unprecedented precision
An international team, in which researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias participated, as well as institutions in Spain, Italy, Portugal...
ESPRESSO confirms the nearest exo-Earth with unprecedented precision
An international team, in which researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias participated, as well as institutions in Spain, Italy, Portugal...
ESPRESSO has its first light on the four telescopes of the VLT at the same time
This instrument, in which the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has collaborated, has used, for the first time, the combined light of the four...
Why does gravity have the strength it has? What exactly determines the value of the electromagnetic force? Are the laws of Physics the same in any part of the...
Euclid release its first images: the dazzling edge of darkness
ESA’s Euclid space mission reveals its first full-colour images of the cosmos. Never before has a telescope been able to create such razor-sharp astronomical...
"The figure of Galileo as the initiator of modern science has been one of the most debated throughout history, and not only for its role in the creation of...
Everything is ready for the XV Scientific Meeting of the Spanish Astronomical Society in La Laguna
Next week, from 5th to 9th September, the XV Scientific Meeting of the Spanish Astronomical Society (SEA) will take place in La Laguna, ion collaboration with...
Evidence for a black hole in the X‐ray transient XTE J1859+226
We present the results of time‐resolved optical photometry and spectroscopy of the X‐ray transient XTE J1859+226 (V406 Vul). Photometric observations taken...