The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument sits atop the Mayall 4-Meter Telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory. DESI’s early data gathered in 2020 and 2021 is now publicly available. Credit: Marilyn Sargent/Berkeley Lab

DESI Early Data Release Holds Nearly Two Million Objects

Episode of the Podcast "La Veu Còsmica" with researcher Licia Verde (ICCUB)

‘La veu còsmica’ premieres its first episode, a podcast combining art and science

Virgo gravitational wave observatory

Gravitational Wave Detectors Start Next Observing Run to Explore the Secrets of the Universe

5 ICCUB researchers, recipients of the Consolidación Investigadora 2022 Call

5 ICCUB researchers, recipients of the Consolidación Investigadora 2022 Call

BlackGEM array at ESO's La Silla ready for observations.

BlackGEM telescopes begin hunt for gravitational-wave sources at ESO's La Silla Observatory

Premis Extraordinaris Doctorat

Albert Escrivà and Alfred Castro receive the 2022 Extraordinary PhD Prizes

Scientists have found strong evidence that supermassive stars existed within globular clusters when they formed 13 billion years ago. Here, an image of the globular cluster M13, 22 000 light years from Earth, consisting of a million stars squeezed into a space 150 light years across.

Celestial monsters at the origin of globular clusters

ICCUB-IEEC researcher Hector Gil-Marín

Héctor Gil-Marín is awarded the 2023 Leonardo Grant in Physics

Artistic rendering of a supernova and its complex environment

Understanding the origin of the most energetic stellar explosions in the Universe

Marc del Alcázar

Marc del Alcázar receives the Societat Catalana de Física Second Price for Best Final Bachelor’s Thesis

An illustration of the concept of baryon acoustic oscillations, which are imprinted in the early universe and can still be seen today in galaxy surveys like BOSS

The 2023 Giuseppe and Vanna Cocconi Prize in cosmology awarded to the SDSS/BOSS/eBOSS collaborations

Plancks

The Linking Quark team, in the final of PLANCKS 2023