ISON: Are you there? What remains of a comet post-perihelion? Earth based observations can tell us whether it still has its nucleus. ISON could be 'alive'. It...
IV International Summer Course "Astronomy Adventure in the Canary Islands"
"The stars and their planets" is the theme chosen for the fourth edition of this training course, designed for school teachers, which will be held from 30th...
Clara Eugenia García, directora general de Política de Investigación, Desarrollo e Innovación de la Secretaría de Estado de I+D+i del Ministerio de Economía...
La directora general, quien midió hace unos años el impacto social y económico de la Gran Ciencia (Big Science), destacó el ambicioso Plan Estratégico del IAC...
James Webb telescope reveals an exoplanet atmosphere as never seen before
NASA's space telescope has produced a molecular and chemical portrait of the atmospheric constituents of exoplanet WASP-39 b, a Saturn-sized behemoth that orbit...
James Webb Telescope reveals the possible origin of the mysterious shapes in the Southern Ring Nebula
The first data show there were at least two, and possibly three, more unseen stars that crafted the oblong, curvy shapes of the Southern Ring Nebula. In...
James Webb telescope studies organic molecules near black holes
Research led by the University of Oxford and with the participation of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has succeeded in studying, for the first...