About CAB

The Centro de Astrobiología (CAB) is a joint centre between the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and the National Institute of Aerospace Technology (INTA).

The main CAB building and facilities are located within the INTA campus in Torrejón de Ardoz and a second section in the ESA’s European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC), both close to Madrid.

The center is organized into four departments: Astrophysics, Molecular Evolution, Planetology and Habitability, and Advanced Instrumentation. Thus, the highly multidisciplinary environment makes CAB a unique research center, where multidisciplinarity turns into true transdisciplinarity to tackle astrobiological questions.