Astrophysicists measure the expansion of the Universe across 11,000 million years

- The international study counts on the participation of researchers from the Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of Barcelona, the Institute of High Energy Physics and the Autonomous Unive... 

Hubble finds that "distance" from the brightest stars is key to preserving Primordial Discs

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope was used to conduct a three-year study of the crowded, massive and young star cluster Westerlund 2, in the first time that astronomers have analysed an extremely de... 

LIGO-Virgo Finds Mystery Object in 'Mass Gap'

When the most massive stars die, they collapse under their own gravity and leave behind black holes; when stars that are a bit less massive die, they explode in supernovas and leave behind dense, dead... 

Cosmic Cataclysm allows precise test of General Relativity

The detection of a Gamma ray burst by MAGIC telescopes allows us to study whether the speed of light in vacuum is a constant in nature.The results, published in the journal Phy... 

The ICCUB is awarded the Maria de Maeztu Excellence Distinction (2020-2023)

The Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation has published the resolution of the 2019 call, where the Institute of Cosmos Sciences is one of the six Maria de Maeztu Excellence Units that is accredit...