The dome of the 3.5-metre telescope at Calar Alto Observatory today hosted the launch of CALIFA and CARMENES, two international projects that are benchmarks in their respective fields.

CARMENES instrument will search for Earth-like planets around other stars from Calar Alto Observatory. The staffs of Calar Alto and the Astrophysical Institute of Andalusia (IAA) have begun, at IAA headquarters in Granada, the assembly of the first components of this instrument…

Researchers from the Planetary Sciences Group of the Basque Country University (UPV/EHU) unveil some secrets of Saturn’s mysterious hexagonal wave, among them its rotational period, that may be the rotation period of the planet itself. The study, published in the scientific journal Geophysical Research Letters, has been based on data taken at Calar Alto Observatory and by the space probe Cassini…

Calar Alto Observatory is on strike from March the 27th to April the 2nd, 2014. The call for strike was made by Calar Alto workers, to show their disagreement with the severe cut offs in the Observatory's budget decided by the Spanish Higher Council for Scientific Research (CSIC) and the German Max Planck Society (MPG).

Granada will host, in April 28th-30th, the I Conference on Astronomical Tourism in Andalusia, a meeting that will join agents from the fields of tourism, science and environmental management, and specialists on scientific public outreach and entrepreneurs as well...