Technology/Science news & information for Canary Islands

EUROPE'S largest telescope will go up on the Canarian island of La Palma and put Spain at the sharp end of global investigation into the sun.

HYDROPLANES are being trialled as a future 'public transport' system to get residents between islands in the Canaries, and could be fully operating by the autumn.

LEGENDARY scientist Albert Einstein's theory of relativity predicted 'gravitational lensing', where spacetime is distorted by a mass that bends the path of light flow so that it does not move in a linear...

A SPANISH photographer has managed to capture clear footage of the Neowise comet – against a background of a sky 'peppered' with Starlink satellites.

CANARIAN Astrophysics Institute researchers believe a massive asteroid will pass between the moon and the earth in the year 2082 – near enough to the planet to cause a 'significant risk'.

CANARY Island-based telescopes will be used to find out more about the seven 'mini-Earths' discovered this week – a cluster of planets 40 light years away with water, oxygen and other conditions conducive to...

RUSSIAN authorities want to set up the largest telescope in the world in the Canary Islands to allow scientists and tourists to get a better view of outer space.