What holds until Wednesday, and what is missing after it
Starmus does not sell festival registration through an outside service but through its own shop. Under the heading "Secure your place" there are two columns: "Until 15 August 2026" at €150 and €300, then "Regular — 16 August – 30 September 2026" at €200 and €350. There is no third column. Wednesday is the last day inside the published window.
What applies on 1 October has not been announced. The home page, the festival page, the shop category and the product page give no further amount, no tier labelled "Late" or "Final" and no time of day for the cut-off; starmus.com/terms-and-conditions and /legal-notice both return a 404. The only price step Starmus has documented was €50 per pass, effective on 16 August. Whether the next one is the same size is stated nowhere.
The shop says what the sales page says
On stories like this the marketing copy and the checkout often disagree. Not here: the product page "Starmus General Admission" shows €200 for students and €350 each for the general ticket, the disability discount and the variant with teenagers. The shop listing, though, shows only the range "200,00 € – 350,00 €", with no closing date.
For concert-only tickets, starmus.com points to entradas.com. That page turned us away on 28 September with a 403 error; we cannot confirm the prices shown there. The culture listings site Lagenda and the ticket portal La Ganzúa put the opening concert "The Symphony of Stars" on 17 October at 19:00 in the port area of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, with tickets from €99 — a third-party figure.
La Palma: date and time yes, venue no
The programme ends on 22 October with two lines: "15:00 GTC 108-Minute Panel Discussion" and "19:00 Space Station Earth – Closing Concert", with "La Palma" as the only location. Alongside it: "Open to the public, subject to venue capacity" — capped by a capacity nobody can look up, because the venue is missing.
The institutional source goes no further. The Cabildo de La Palma presented the island programme on 6 July 2026, with island president Sergio Rodríguez and Starmus director Garik Israelian. It lists four items: a star for Sir Brian May on the Paseo de las Estrellas y la Ciencia, 108 Minutos at the Gran Telescopio Canarias, a lecture at the Teatro Circo de Marte and the closing concert "Space Station Earth" by the British composer Ilan Eshkeri, created with ESA. Two of them have a venue; the concert does not. The release ends: "Próximamente se anunciarán más detalles sobre horarios, participantes y acceso del público" — further details on timings, participants and public access to come shortly. That was almost three months ago. Nothing has followed: culturalapalma.com carries Starmus VIII only as an all-day entry located at "Isla de La Palma", and visitlapalma.es gives Santa Cruz de La Palma as the "Localidad", but names no hall.
Two islands — and one more venue that is missing
Tenerife is the main stage: the conference programme runs from 19 to 21 October, daily from 14:00 to 18:00, at the Pirámide de Arona, where on 18 October Rick Wakeman gives the world premiere of "Echoes from Black Holes". The opening with the medals ceremony is on 17 October in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, and the Camps run across five days in the "Metropolitan Area", with no address.
20 October stands out: for the Star Party at 21:00, Starmus writes "Undisclosed location" in its own table. So nothing was forgotten — two dates are deliberately left open. The artists page lists Brian May, Andrea Bocelli, Sarah Brightman, Rick Wakeman and the "Las Palmas Symphony Orchestra" — no line-up is published for the La Palma concert.
Why old Starmus figures are dangerous here
Starmus staged a separate La Palma edition in 2025, and its traces sit unchanged online. The page starmus.com/starmus-la-palma is headed "The Island of The Stars" and dated 25 to 29 April 2025; its stages were Los Llanos de Aridane, Puerto de Tazacorte and Puerto Naos — none of them is announced for 2026.
More awkward still is a regional government page: on gobiernodecanarias.org, the Canary research agency ACIISI still describes "Starmus. Festival-La Palma" with a contribution of "tres millones de euros" and a "programa totalmente gratuito". The address carries no year and the text reads as current, but it describes 2025. Starmus VIII is titled "The Search for Truth" and is a paid festival. In the press section, the newest items date from 2019 to 2021.