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Press releases
Published on 21 January 2025
Astrophysics of the future: Observatoire de Paris-PSL, CNRS and their partners ready to take up the challenge
Observatoire de Paris - PSL and CNRS, along with their partner universities and organizations, are adopting a new scientific organization at the start of...
News from the labs
Published on 21 January 2025
Monster shocks at the origin of fast radio bursts
A new mechanism involving the production of coherent radio wave emission is proposed to explain the origin of fast radio bursts. In a full-length article in...
Highlights
Published on 20 January 2025
Have we discovered the smallest extra-solar planet?
Using pulsar timing techniques at the decimeter radio telescope of the Nançay Radio Observatory, an international team comprising researchers from CNRS,...
Highlights
Published on 16 January 2025
Gaia satellite ceases observations
January 15, 2025 marks the end of scientific observations by ESA’s Gaia satellite, after 3,827 days spent measuring... almost two billion objects in our...
Highlights
Published on 14 January 2025
CTAO becomes a European Research Infrastructure Consortium
Preparations for the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO) reached a crucial milestone on January 7, 2025, when the European Commission awarded the...
Highlights
Published on 8 January 2025
Franco-Dutch team wins third SKAO Data Challenge
The international DOTSS-21 team, comprising researchers from France’s CNRS Terre & Univers (Observatoire de Paris, ENS) and the Netherlands (Kapteyn...
Highlights
Published on 18 December 2024
How to reveal the atmosphere of an exoplanet: the case of TRAPPIST-1 b
Recent observations highlight the challenges involved in confirming the presence of an atmosphere on an exoplanet from thermal emission data alone. Conducted...
Press releases
Published on 3 December 2024
A new theory to explain the origin of water on Earth
A team led by an astronomer from Observatoire de Paris - PSL at the Laboratoire d’études spatiales et d’instrumentation en astrophysique (LESIA -...
Highlights
Published on 29 November 2024
Young stars discovered in spheroidal dwarf galaxies surrounding the Milky Way
Using data from ESA’s Gaia satellite and observations from ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), a research team from CNRS Terre & Univers and Paris...
Highlights
Published on 15 November 2024
Unexpected discovery of a link between black hole jets and their host galaxies
In our study published today, November 14, 2024, in the journal Nature Astronomy we demonstrate that there is a connection between the near region of a black...