15 September 2016
Scientists shed light on how our gas giants got their different rings
... rings around giant planets are a team of astronomers from France and Japan, who have constructed a series of simulations to ... the “Nice Model” – named after the location in Nice, France, where the model was initially developed – and according to the ...
16 November 2016
Proxima mission to the ISS ready for launch tomorrow
..., a former airline pilot, will be the 10th astronaut from France to head into space. During his time on the ISS, Pesquet... will perform around 50 scientific experiments for ESA and France’s space agency CNES under a mission known as Proxima. ...
07 August 2019
Crater evidence points to a past mega-tsunami on Mars
...years ago, say an international team of researchers from France, Australia and Spain. News that Mars was once covered...Geophysical Research is F. Costard at Université Paris-Saclay, France, after they picked through data collected from the Mars Orbiter...
14 August 2019
Protesters block asteroid detection safety work
..., and not finding it there. Regaining access to the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope at Maunakea, however, remained crucial. “The area ...resumed. Tholen’s team trained 55 of the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope’s visible-light detectors on their top target...
20 May 2020
Twisted feature could be the first direct evidence of a baby planet being born
... the Observatoire de Paris, PSL University, France. The currently accepted method by which planets... explains Emmanuel Di Folco of the Astrophysics Laboratory of Bordeaux (LAB), France, who also participated in the study. Twists then appear when two...
08 October 2021
Images confirm "once and for all" Jezero crater was an ancient Martian lake
... Mangold, at Laboratoire de Planétologie et Géodynamique in Nantes, France, set to work studying “Kodiak”; a 200 metre wide rocky ... from the Laboratoire de Planétologie et Géodynamique in Nantes, France, and lead author of the paper. “This is the key...
