The largest ever synthetic galaxy catalogue is now public; a team of 8 institutions within the Euclid Consortium, led by the Institute of Space Sciences (ICE-CSIC) and the Port d’Informació Científica (PIC)in Barcelona have developed this `mock' catalogue, which includes 3.4 billion galaxies with 400 modelled properties available for the scientific community.

We studied 12 disk streams found in a 250$^3$ pc$^3$ volume in the solar neighborhood, which we define as coeval and comoving stellar structures with aspect ratios greater than 3:1. Using \emph{Gaia} ...

We invite applications for the 2026 DiRAC Fellowship in the Department of Astronomy at the University of Washington. These up to 3-year full time postdoctoral positions are available to promising earl...

New observations reveal asteroid 1998 KY26 is just 11 metres wide and spins every 5 minutes, posing new challenges for Japan’s Hayabusa2 mission in 2031, when the spacecraft will attempt a delicate ‘kiss’ manoeuvre, briefly touching the asteroid’s surface to collect data without landing.

On 12 August 2026, Catalonia will experience a total solar eclipse, a phenomenon not seen in the country since 1905! This coming 12 August is a perfect time to check whether the future eclipse will be visible from your location: if there are no obstacles blocking your view of the sunset, it is a goo...

Google claims to have disclosed new information proving its own efficiency. But it has hidden the bigger picture. Guess what: I’ve got the bigger picture for you right here in this big old po…

100 Fascinating Facts about Neutron Stars

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The predictive model, developed by ICCUB-IEEC researcher Eduard Masana and based on supercomputing, enables the assessment of night sky brightness across the territory and opens the door to improved planning and environmental and energy management of outdoor lighting.

Webb image shows Wolf–Lundmark–Melotte a dwarf galaxy full of stars