February 10:
Galaxies in the young universe are rich in molecular gas
February 10:
A collisionless scenario for Uranus tilting
February 10:
The evolution of the Hubble sequence
January 10:
Zoom on near-earth asteroids
January 10:
Unprecedented details on the surface of the Betelgeuse star
January 10:
Inhomogeneous models of universe: an alternative to dark energy
January 10:
Close-up photos of dying star show our Sun's fate
December 09:
A new window for the observation of dust growth in molecular clouds
November 09:
A multifaceted astronomical dictionary
October 09:
The Andromeda galaxy seen as never, at the 21-cm wavelength
October 09:
A population of compact elliptical galaxies detected with the Virtual Observatory
Septembre 09:
First light for Planck
Septembre 09:
First Solid Evidence for a Rocky Exoplanet
Septembre 09:
Andromeda, the cannibal
July 09:
Sharpest views of Betelgeuse reveal how supergiant stars lose mass
July 09:
Fermi reveals various populations of gamma-ray pulsars
June 09:
Solar-like oscillations have been discovered in a massive star by CoRoT
June 09:
Io close to thermal equilibrium
June 09:
A new interpretation of the giant planet-metallicity correlation
June 09:
Mercury, Mars, Venus and the Earth: when worlds collide!
June 09:
Silver medal for the European project «Hands-On Universe»
May 09:
ESO builds and operates a suite of the world's most advanced ground-based astronomical telescopes
May 09:
CoRoT detects non radial modes with long lifetimes in giant stars
April 09:
Discovery of a slow bar in a spiral galaxy
April 09:
The solar wind is the cause of rapid ageing of the asteroids
April 09:
Galaxy survey maps where matter lurks
March 09:
From stellar abundances to nucleosynthesis theory
March 09:
Recovery of the fragments of a falling asteroid
March 09:
Nanoparticles in the solar wind
March 09:
Very high energy gamma-rays from the radiogalaxy Centaurus A
March 09:
Hubble and the Very Large Telescope provide unique 3D views of remote galaxies
March 09:
Paris Astronomers "Catch" Passing Asteroid
March 09:
The lower atmosphere of Pluto revealed
February 09:
The tragic destiny of the gaseous extrasolar planets
February 09:
Super-Earth found! The smallest transiting extrasolar planet ever discovered
February 09:
From Titania to large trans-Neptunian objects: ground-based stellar occultations in the quest for the billionth of atmospheric pressure
January 09:
Christian Bordé elected at the Académie des sciences
December 08:
The Price of the Engineers 2008 rewards the group for microwave studies of LERMA
December 08:
An extra second in 2008
December 08:
No galaxy is an island
November 08:
The giant exoplanet, long suspected around Beta Pictoris, now imaged
October 08:
CoRoT measures solar-like oscillations and granulation in stars hotter than the Sun
October 08:
An unexpected solar wind seen by Ulysses
October 08:
Planet or "failed star"? CoRoT finds a unique object
October 08:
Retired galaxies behaving like active galaxies
September 08:
Successful atmospheric re-entry for the ATV Jules Verne
August 08:
Meteorites look different from Near-Earth Asteroids
July 08:
Last news from the CoRoT satellite
July 08:
A breath of oxygen for the Sun
July 08:
Solar-stellar connection: a new light on the solar magnetic mystery
June 08:
Radial migration of stars in the Galactic disk
May 08:
CoRoT discovers 5 exoplanets
May 08:
Detection of hydroxyl (OH) on Venus through nightglow emission
May 08:
A stratospheric oscillation detected at the equator of Saturn
May 08:
The mystery of Titan's rotation
May 08:
Big black holes cook flambeed stellar pancakes
April 08:
A new analysis of WMAP and large-scale structure data yields interesting constraints on the inflation theory
March 08:
Lithium in the most deficient dwarf: a puzzle
March 08:
Hunting exoplanets ? try using two chessboards and one triangle
March 08:
Stellar jets: comparison between laboratory experiment and numerical simulations
February 08:
Ligth echoes give the distance of a Cepheid
February 08:
The Poincaré Dodecahedral Space model gains support to explain the shape of space
December 07:
Launch of an astrobiological experiment on Columbus
December 07:
Formation of cold filaments in cooling flow clusters
November 07:
First results from Venus Express
November 07:
Rare White dwarf stars with carbon atmospheres
November 07:
Stubborn nebulae -- Fossil magnetic fields protect Helium 3 in dying stars
November 07:
The puzzle of the variable radio period of Saturn
Novembre 07:
The Pierre Auger Observatory reveals the origin of cosmic rays of extreme energy
November 07:
COROT: 300 days in orbit
October 07:
What happened to the comet 17P/Holmes ?
October 07:
Cosmic Vision 2015-2025
September 07:
The asymmetry of the Li lines casts doubt on previous determinations of the
isotopic ratio 6Li/7Li
September 07:
Strong seasonal temperature variations in Neptune's atmosphere
September 07:
Observations of the 2007 burst of Aurigids meteor shower
July 07:
Be stars and binaries of the Small Magellanic Cloud
July 07:
Detection of interstellar propylene in the dark cloud TMC-1
July 07:
The chemical diversity of comets dates back to their origin
June 07:
The Milky Way: an unusual galaxy and an exceptionnally calm formation
May 07:
COROT: discovery of an exoplanet and first stellar oscillations
April 07:
First detection of molecular oxygen in the interstellar medium
Mars 07:
Physical characterisation of the double asteroid (90) Antiope
March 07:
Toward a Unified Description of Dark Energy and Dark Matter
March 07:
Transit of the Moon in front of the Sun seen by STEREO B
March 07:
The Descartes award 2006 to the HESS consortium
February 07:
The PLANCK satellite
February 07:
Cold gas and molecular depletion in pre-stellar cores
January 07:
COROT first image
January 07:
The lakes on Titan
December 06:
VIRTIS measures the surface temperature on Venus
December 06:
The Be stars: fast rotators since their birth!
December 06:
The Be stars: fast rotators since their birth!
November 06:
A giant planet embedded in the magnetosphere of its star
November 06:
The Milky Way's neighbouring galaxies have a different history
November 06:
Chlorophyll and ozone in the Earthshine
October 06:
A New Class of Compact H II regions in the Magellanic Clouds
October 06:
October 25-26, 2006: Launching of STEREO mission
October 06:
Smoking gun evidence of a head-on collision for Andromeda
October 06:
Pristine abundances of C, N, and... mixing issues in the stellar interiors
October 06:
First detection of small Kuiper objects by stellar occultations
September 06:
Contribution of anthropogenic and natural sources to atmospheric methane variability
September 06:
Can violent collisions shape circumstellar disks?
September 06:
The last straight line for the CoRoT satellite
July 06:
New Constraints on Inflation from the WMAP data
July 06:
A new concept for magnetic reconnexion
July 06:
Loops in the Earth pole motion... down to the size of a cell phone!
June 06:
The extended rotation curve of Messier 31
June 06:
The various origin of dwarf galaxies revealed by numerical simulations
June 06:
The magnetic nature of a mysterious naked-eye cosmic X-ray emitter
May 06:
Sand dunes discovered on Titan by Cassini radar
May 06:
Trio of Neptunes and their Belt
April 06:
Does the asteroid Vesta possess a magnetic field?
April 06:
A cosmological billiard:
a new explanation for gamma ray bursts
April 06:
Astronomers see our origins in 20-year-old star explosion
April 06:
Vega: the star with comets?
April 06:
Insertion in orbit of Venus Express on 11 April 2006,
and first images of Venus south pole
March 06:
The cosmic dance of distant galaxies
March 06:
Cepheids in their cocoons
March 06:
Still more accurate clocks
February 06:
Cosmic-ray accelerator in the Galactic Center
February 06:
Trojan asteroid Patroclus and its companion Menoetius: Comets in disguise?
January 06:
Rapidly Spinning Star Vega has Cool Dark Equator
January 06:
Simulate the climate on Mars to understand its glaciers' origin
January 06:
The first 'OHANA fringes with the Keck telescopes
January 06:
The stellar occultation by Charon of 11 july 2005
January 06:
Disturbed kinematics of Virgo cluster spiral galaxies
December 05:
An extra second in 2005
November 05:
Titan, ten months after the successful landing of the Huygens probe
November 05:
The largest matter concentration on large scale of the local Universe
October 05:
Launch of Venus Express between 26 october and 24 November 2005
September 05:
A numerical method "multi-zoom" to study galaxy formation
September 05:
Black hole in search of a home
August 05:
The moonlets of asteroid 87 Sylvia: Remus and Romulus
July 05:
A dual emission mechanism at the Galactic Centre?
June 05:
First observation of a meteor in the Martian atmosphere
June 05:
Explaining the acceleration of the fast solar wind
May 05:
Guy Perrin, winner in 2005 of the HP-SF2A award
May 05:
On the likely effect of disk self-gravity on low mass planet migration
April 05:
A very rare massive star, and a peculiar young ionised "blob"
April 05:
The project « Oeil »: astronomy enters hospital
April 05:
New potential locations for life in other planetary systems
March 05:
The first dark galaxy discovered?
February 05:
An Earth-like correspondence between Saturn's auroral features and radio emission
February 05:
Earthquake of Sumatra: did the axis of the Earth tremble?
February 05:
Seismology and activity of the F type star HD 49933
January 05:
The large spiral galaxies younger than expected
December 04:
A magnetic storm on Saturn
November 04:
Recipe for a planet
November 04:
International joint observation of a solar filament: THEMIS maps the magnetic field
November 04:
First image of TeV-energy gamma-rays of a cosmic source: a supernova remnant
November 04:
VLTI watches the pulsation of four southern Cepheids
November 04:
Severe glacial cycles on Mars
October 04:
A new astronomical solution for the calibration of a geological time scale
September 04:
Dwarf Irregular Galaxies: Not so pristine after all
September 04:
Foreseeing the Sun's fate: Astronomical interferometry reveals the close environment of Mira stars
September 04:
Remnants of the 1994 comet crash in Jupiter
August 04:
How did the planet in the Gamma-Cephei binary system form?
July 04:
Overeating Monsters
July 04:
Titan, a new world is unveiled
July 04:
The explanation of Mercury's capture into the 3:2 spin-orbit
resonance as a result of its chaotic orbital dynamics
July 04:
CASSINI enters the Saturn system
June 04:
FLAMES/GIRAFFE: a unique tool to understand galaxy evolution
June 04:
Hydrogen peroxide on Mars
May 04:
First observation of an active galactic nucleus with the VLTI:
resolution of the torus at the heart of NGC 1068
April 04:
The new asteroid targets of Rosetta mission: 21 Lutetia and 2867 Steins
March 04:
Antifreeze in comet Hale-Bopp
March 04:
Repartition of H2O and CO2 ices on the south polar cap of Mars
March 04:
Atomic hydrogen from circumstellar shells around AGB stars
February 04:
Paris Observatory will participate in the realisation of the infrared instrument MIRI,
on the future space telescope JWST
February 04:
Rosetta: Launch on 2 March by Ariane 5
February 04:
First results of the ESA/Mars Express orbiter around Mars
February 04:
Time evolution of protoneutron stars
January 04:
Conceptual unification of elementary particles, black holes and
the primordial states of the universe
December 03:
First proof of cold molecular gas associated to a cooling flow
December 03:
First detection of CO in Uranus
November 03:
Some teams of Paris Observatory are among the teams honored by the
European Descartes Price, in 2003
November 03:
From the edge of abyss...
First message received from the boundary of the black hole
at the centre of our Galaxy
Octobre 03:
First coronographic observations using a 4 Quadrant Phase Mask on the VLT
Octobre 03:
A finite dodecahedral Universe
September 03:
End of the journey for Galileo: October 1989- September 2003
September 03:
Perspective of discovering true analogs of Jupiter around nearby stars with ALMA
August 03:
The Earth-Mars distance, and the August 27 event
July 03:
Mars-Express successfully tests its instruments
July 03:
Drastic expansion of Pluto's atmosphere as revealed by stellar occultations
July 03:
How is our Galaxy enriched in carbon?
June 03:
First mapping of the neighbourhood of our solar system
May 03:
What are these mysterious Low Surface Brightness galaxies?
May 03:
Variation of fundamental constants constrained by atomic fountain clocks
May 03:
Transits of Mercury on 7 May 2003, and of Venus on 8 June 2004
April 03:
Polar ring galaxies and dark matter
March 03:
Overabundance of nitrogen onto a magnetic white dwarf
February 03:
R127 and its massive star cluster
January 03:
Vibrations of the cosmic drumhead
January 03:
Salt on Io
January 03:
Origin of atmospheric zonal winds in giant planets
December 02:
When Uranus looks like Saturn...
December 02:
The outer parts of accretion discs in active galaxies unveiled
November 02:
Exceptional Leonid shower
November 02:
Venus Express
October 02:
A black hole at our Galactic Center
October 02:
Martian paleoclimates
September 02:
A rose blooming in space
September 02:
The double planet Pluton-Charon
meets a triple star
August 02:
A bath of youth for galaxies
July 02:
GIRAFFE sees its first light
July 02:
Solar neutrinos: are observations and model predictions
reconciled at last?
June 02:
The Odin satellite detects H218O in comet C/2002 C1
(Ikeya-Zhang)
May 02:
Detection of triply deuterated ammonia:
the first triply deuterated molecule in the interstellar medium
April 02:
The lithium observed in old stars has a uniform
abundance: is this the lithium of the Big-Bang?
March 02:
Is there an atmosphere around Titania, satellite of Uranus?
February 02:
Evidence that the solar wind controls Jovian hectometric
radiation and auroral EUV emissions
February 02:
Is the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy a debris of the Large Magellanic Cloud?
January 02:
Earth light: Terrestrial vegetation detected in the spectrum of the earthshine
January 02:
Multiple eyes for the VLT: FLAMES
January 02:
First Fringes at VLTI and Application to Cepheids
December 01:
Delivery of GIRAFFE: multi-fibers spectrograph for the VLT
December 01:
A Small Spherical Universe after All?
December 01:
Images of unprecedented sharpness:
the first light of NAOS, the adaptive
optics of the VLT, is a success
November 01:
A New Bar in the Center of the Milky Way
November 01:
Painting with oxygen and hydrogen
October 01:
Cold atomic matter in the Universe
October 01:
"What goes around comes around..."
September 01:
The problem of the light polarization on the quiet Sun: the
contribution of THEMIS
September 01:
First Computations of the Orbits in a Binary Black Hole System
August 01:
First radio cartography of solar coronal mass ejection
July 01:
How seismology can distinguish a pre-main-sequence star
from a main-sequence star?
June 01:
The Orion molecular cloud : a stellar nursery
May 01:
The breakup of Comet Linear
May 01:
Orbit predictions for planets and exo-planets
May 01:
Discovery of a satellite around the transneptunian object 1998 WW31
May 01:
A french consortium, in which l'Observatoire de Paris is very active,
delivers the first
adaptive optics system,
NAOS, to the Very Large Telescope
April 01:
The accretion disks around super-massive black holes: do they
really exist?
April 01:
Discovery of a remarkable planetary nebula
March 01:
ESO and Observatoire de Paris (DESPA) are happy to announce
the first fringes of VLTI/VINCI
March 01:
Massive Infant Stars Rock Their Cradle
March 01:
Phase A study approved by ESA for EUSO
March 01:
Turbulence to make stars vibrate
March 01:
The ODIN satellite gets first light
February 01:
FIRST measure of URANIUM abundance in a star
February 01:
Are pulsars and X-binaries strange stars?
January 01:
Individual Stars in Andromeda's Bulge
Decembre 00:
Direct Observations with the VLT of the formation of
spiral galaxies
Decembre 00:
Discovery of a brown dwarf (or a very low mass star) at 13 light-year from Sun
with DENIS, MAMA and Keck
Novembre 00:
Has Sirius a second companion?
Novembre 00:
New E-Journal: Astrofluids
Novembre 00:
VINCI delivered by DESPA (Obs Paris)
will soon arrive to Paranal for the first light of VLTI
October 00:
Dark matter in the Universe, and cosmic shear
October 00:
ESA selected on October 12, 6 space missions
for 2008-2012: BepiColombo, GAIA, LISA, NGST, Solar
Orbiter and Eddington ("in reserve")
October 00:
CNES decided on October 5 to launch
phases C and D of COROT
September 00:
Interstellar origin of cometary ices ?
August 00:
Space Weather with SOHO and MEUDON Observations
July 00:
Mass Loss from Asymptotic Giant Branch Stars and the Cosmic Cycle
of Matter
May 00:
The ISO satellite measures temperature variations at the surface of Pluto
April 00:
Evaporation of black holes and string theory