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The detection of a gamma-ray burst by MAGIC telescopes allows to study whether the speed of light in a vacuum is a constant of nature.

The European Space Agency Education Office has selected the candidacy of Barcelona, which leads the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, to organize next spring the "4th Symposium on Space Educational Activities".

Publication of the book (In)habitabilidad planetaria. Foundations of astrobiogeology, the work of several authors including our astronomer Carme Jordi

The Hubble telescope of the European Space Agency and the NASA reveals that the planets have difficulties to form in the centre of the star cluster Westerlund 2.

The Gaia Mission app is now available for Android and iOS

This year's edition of the Science Festival of the University of Barcelona, organized by the Scientific Culture and Innovation Unit "La UB Divulga", is held virtually.

The Technological Unit of the Institute of Cosmos Sciences is one of the research groups that has joined the initiative to produce medical equipment

The Joan Oró telescope, in coordination with various telescopes around the world, tracked the BepiColombo flyby of the Earth in the only time the mission approaches our planet on its way to Mercury.

We compile a series of proposals, activities, resources and talks on Astronomy, aimed at children and adults, and thought and organized by different centers, research institutes and scientific communicators.

The team, led by Alfred Castro-Ginard, discovered 582 new open clusters of stars, using data from the Gaia mission.

The authors of the study reveal for the first time detailed images of Pallas, including of its cratered surface.