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Seven new planets for COROT
An international team made up of some 50 researchers works on the analysis of CoRoT’s observations on a daily basis. This team announced last month the discovery of six new...
News Sciences Science and technologyMarch 17, 2010 -
CoRot-9 b, a very promising exoplanet
Orbiting its star at the same distance as Mercury and passing in front of it regularly, CoRoT-9 b –an exoplanet the same size as Jupiter– has a strong potential for future...
News Sciences Science and technologyMarch 17, 2010 -
First global ammonia maps measured by the IASI...
The first complete map of the ammonia sources on Earth was just built by a LATMOS-IPSL's team (CNRS/UPMC/UVSQ) in partnership with Belgium investigators of the Free...
News Observation Science and technologyJune 25, 2009 -
2009: cloudy weather on Titan
Titan, Saturn’s biggest moon, is the only body in the Solar System -apart from Earth- to have a thick atmosphere. Nonetheless, the Cassini probe discovered clouds in it. These...
News Science and technologyJune 3, 2009 -
Black hole with intermediate mass
A black hole of more than 500 times the Sun's mass was discovered. It is an intermediate one between the stellar and super-massive black holes. This "missing link"...
News Science and technologyJune 3, 2009 -
SPOT 2 deorbiting
After being exploited during nineteen and a half years, the second satellite - Spot 2 (Earth Observation System) - of the Earth Observation Programme decided by the Belgian,...
News Observation Science and technologyJune 3, 2009 -
FERMI reveals millisecond pulsars in a globular...
60 millisecond pulsars in the globular cluster 47 Tucanae: that is what the FERMI observatories concluded when for the first time they showed gamma-ray coming from a globular...
News Science and technologyJune 3, 2009 -
Nanoparticles detected by STEREO
A new type of dusts just got discovered in the interstellar medium: nanoparticles which had been accelerated up to several hundreds of kilometers per second by the solar wind-...
News Sciences Science and technologyMay 14, 2009 -
CoRoT-7b, the first super-earth discovered
In February 3rd, 2009, the CoRoT scientific team announced the first exoplanet the telluric nature of which was no doubt.
News Sciences Science and technologyFebruary 20, 2009 -
Expose-R installed on the outside of the ISS
After leaving Earth on November 26, 2008, the Expose-R instrument of ESA carrying nine experiments was set up outside the Russian module of the ISS on March 10. The objective of...
News Sciences Science and technologyJanuary 26, 2009 -
Cosmic vision: M3 Shortlisting
Update: 03/21/2011
News Science and technologyApril 1, 2008 -
Call for proposals for Cosmic Vision M3: the...
Update: 12/20/2010 The second call for proposals within the frame of the ESA's Cosmic Vision programme received an enthusiastic response from the European community. After...
News Science and technologyApril 1, 2008 -
Press Release: De-orbitation of Spot 1
Keeping space free of debris, CNES shows the way with decision to de-orbit SPOT 1
News ObservationNovember 13, 2003