ESA chooses ARIEL as its future medium-size space mission
The exoplanet team of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) is participating in this mission scheduled for launch in 2028 which, it is expected, will...
ESPRESSO and CARMENES discover two potentially habitable exo-Earths around a star near the Sun
An international scientific team led by researchers at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has discovered the presence of two planets with Earth-like...
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...
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 detects more than 5000 ultracool dwarf candidates
An international team of astronomers, led by the IAC’s Substellar researcher Marusa Zerjal, has released a striking new census of ultracool dwarfs - 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...