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Artistic representation of the exoplanet Tau Boötis b and its host star, Tau Boötis

Science

A hot and dry Jupiter: SPIRou reveals the atmosphere of the exoplanet Tau Boötis b

28 July 2021

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Science

A rare solar eclipse on the morning of June 10

1 June 2021

Press release

Diego Urbina and Romain Charles from Europe, Sukhrob Kamolov, Alexey Sitev, Alexandr Smoleevskiy and from Russia and Wang Yue from China

Health

Feeling confinement in the gut

23 April 2021

Press release

Artistic rendition of the exoplanet WASP-107b and its star, WASP-107. Some of the star's light streams through the exoplanet's extended gas layer.

Science

A ‘super-puff’ planet like no other

18 January 2021

Press release

Science

Astronomy: unraveling a spiral stream of dusty embers

16 September 2020

Press release

Brown dwarfs form like stars, but are not massive enough to ignite nuclear fusion of hydrogen within their cores -- a defining mechanism within proper stars -- yet are too massive to be called planets.

Science

Citizen scientists help discover two exotic brown dwarfs in the Milky Way

10 July 2020

Press release

Artist’s representation of the planet (foreground) and its star (background).

Science

Discovering an exoplanet the size of Neptune

25 June 2020

Press release

David Saint-Jacques et René Pelletier

Science

René Pelletier, the osteopath who helped David Saint-Jacques readjust to life on Earth

15 October 2019

Article

An artistic representation of the exoplanet K2-18b.

Science

Water detected on an exoplanet located in its star’s habitable zone

11 September 2019

Press release

Artist's illustration of gas streaming from GJ 3470 b.

Science

Probing a new class of exoplanets

2 July 2019

Press release

(L) A view of Eta Carinae by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope in 2000. (R) What the star could look like in 2032, when it overshadows its nebula.

Science

Goodbye to a beauty in the night sky

29 January 2019

Press release

Artist's depiction of the inside of a white dwarf. Credit: Mark A. Garlick, University of Warwick.

Science

Thousands of stars turning into crystals

9 January 2019

Press release

On March 30, 2021, the James Webb Space Telescope will be sent into orbit in search of extraterrestrial life.

Science

The search for ET

11 December 2018

Article

A size comparison of the Earth, Wolf 503b and Neptune. The color blue for Wolf 503b is imaginary; nothing is yet known about the atmosphere or surface of the planet.

Science

A new exoplanet is discovered by an international team led by a young master's student

6 September 2018

Press release

A night view of the Mont-Mégantic Observatory.

Science

Funding for Mont-Mégantic Observatory secured for five years

8 August 2018

Press release

Artist’s view of an active red dwarf similar to AD Leo, known for its huge flares. AD Leo was the first star observed with CFHT’s new instrument SPIRou.

Science

First light for SPIRou!

24 May 2018

Press release

Filamentary structure around the galaxy NGC 1275, in HD.

Science

Revealing the complexity of the nebula in NGC 1275 with SITELLE

15 May 2018

Article

Illustration of an "ultramassive" black hole detected by the team of astrophysicists.

Science

“Ultramassive” black holes discovered in far-off galaxies

19 February 2018

Press release

This white darwf is about the size of the Earth.

Science

Nature article turns theory of stellar evolution upside-down

11 January 2018

Article

Kepler-11 is a sun-like star around which six planets orbit.

Science

Planets around other stars are like peas in a pod

9 January 2018

Press release

Artistic ilustration of planet K2-18b, its star K2-18 and the second planet K2-18.

Science

Two Super-Earths around star K2-18

5 December 2017

Press release

Artistic illustration of an exoplanet.

Science

A new spin to solving mystery of stellar companions

4 December 2017

Press release

The Near Infra Red Planet Searcher.

Science

ESO’s La Silla Observatory to host new planet hunter

1 September 2017

Press release

Science

Scientists solve mystery of blinking brown dwarfs

17 August 2017

Press release

Science

Astronomers discover a new branch in the family tree of exoplanets

20 June 2017

Press release

Iota Orionis binary star system

Science

Iota Orionis: pulsating beacon of a constellation

8 March 2017

Press release

An artist’s conception of a free-floating planet-analog courtesy.

Science

Hunting for giant planet analogs in our own backyard

28 February 2017

Press release

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