Massive stars are key agents in the chemical and dynamic evolution of the Universe. The information that comes to us from early epochs of the Universe comes from galaxies dominated by the presence of massive stars. Therefore, understanding the evolution mechanisms of massive stars is fundamental to understanding the Universe. These mechanisms

EMIR, the common user near-infrared camera and multiobject spectrograph in the GTC, is currently in operation in the middle of its Scientific Verification phase, and has recently been offered to the user community for the 2017B semester in long slit spectroscopy and image modes. EMIR has been built by a consortium led by the Institute of

The scientific objective of this project is the compositional characterization of the primitive asteroids, which we will carry out through three actions: 1. Participation in the two space missions that will visit and study near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) of primitive type. 2. The compositional characterization of the collisional families and groups of

The aim of this project is to provide a Laser Launch Telescope for the Laser Guide Star Facility of the Adaptive Optics system of the GTC telescope. This will allow to increase drastically the capacity of GTC to make high spatial resolution science. The Laser Launch Telescope is in charge of expanding the laser beam and projecting it into the

In the last two decades, Spain has built up strong IR and X-ray communities which have successfully contributed, at Co-I level, to the construction and to the scientific exploitation of basically all European InfraRed (IR) space instruments and to the participation in X-ray missions, including Athena. The IAC has contributed to the construction of