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Published on 22 March 2024
Facts about comet 12P/Pons-Brooks
An evening visitor in the spring of 2024, comet 12P/Pons-Brooks is visible from the metropolis in the early hours of the morning until early April. A sight...
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Published on 14 March 2024
Lunar chronology revised by bombardment heterogeneity
An international team involving the IMCCE is recalibrating the study of lunar samples, taking into account for the first time the heterogeneity of the...
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Published on 12 March 2024
Triton atmospheric pressure: a new value is obtained
Triton, Neptune’s main satellite, passed in front of a star on October 6, 2022. This phenomenon prompted a vast campaign of observations in India, China and...
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Published on 1 March 2024
Is it raining rocks on WASP-43 b?
By comparing observations from the Webb telescope with numerical simulations from a climate model tailor-made for "hot Jupiter" exoplanets, a scientific team...
Press releases
Published on 29 February 2024
JWST witnesses the destruction of the equivalent of an ocean every month in space
An international team involving French scientists1 from Université Paris-Saclay, Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier, the joint laboratory INCLASS...
Press releases
Published on 29 February 2024
Presence of a "young" ocean under the Mimas ice sheet
It’s confirmed! Mimas, one of Saturn’s small moons, contains a global ocean of liquid water beneath its icy surface. What’s more, the ocean’s appearance...
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Published on 29 February 2024
Serendipitous discovery of a bizarre pulsar, named PARROT
In an article published on February 21, 2024, in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, an international team including an astronomer...
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Published on 29 February 2024
Green light for Carioqa space mission
Officially launched on January 16 at CNES in Paris, the Carioqa space mission will orbit the first quantum sensor by 2030. The mission is co-directed by a...
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Published on 7 February 2024
LISA mission approved by ESA
On Thursday January 25, 2024, the European Space Agency’s Scientific Program Committee (SPC) officially approved the start of development of the LISA...
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Published on 1 February 2024
ESA approves EnVision mission!
On Thursday January 25, 2024, the European Space Agency’s Scientific Program Committee (SPC) officially approved the start of development of the next...