Press releases
The revisited mass of the Milky Way is much smaller than expectations from cosmology 27/09/2023
Thanks to the latest Gaia satellite catalogue from the European Space Agency (ESA), an international team led by astronomers from the Paris (...)
Pulsars: a new window for observing gravitational waves 29/06/2023
As part of a global network dedicated to pulsar observation, a European consortium published on June 29, 2023 in the journal Astronomy and (...)
Why is the Solar System so stable? 04/05/2023
The long-term orbital stability of the inner planets in our Solar System is still an open problem: the orbits of Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars (...)
The Moon opens its heart for the first time 03/05/2023
Fifty years after Apollo 11 paved the way for the first studies of the Moon, a team of scientists from CNRS, Université Côte d’Azur, (...)
Detection of distant gas clouds containing traces of the first stars 03/05/2023
In the framework of an international collaboration, a researcher from Observatoire de Paris - PSL at GEPI (Observatoire de Paris - PSL/CNRS) (...)
Improbable discovery of a ring around the transneptunian object Quaoar 08/02/2023
Would Édouard Roche (1820 - 1883) have been mistaken? An international team, involving French researchers from the Observatoire de Paris - (...)