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New CoRoT exoplanet catalogue coming on line
The catalogue of exoplanets and transiting objects observed by CoRoT is to be published to mark the fifth anniversary of the end of space telescope’s mission after it was...
News SciencesNovember 19, 2018 -
Release of the CoRoT legacy data
The CoRoT team has recently released the mission full science data set.
News SciencesJuly 18, 2016 -
Strong magnetic fields discovered in majority of...
An international collaboration, involving the Astrophysics Department-AIM Laboratory of CEA-IRFU, managed to determine, from asteroseismology, that up to 65% of stars more massive...
News SciencesJanuary 21, 2016 -
Mission accomplished for CoRoT
After a mission that lasted twice as long as planned, CNES’s CoRoT spacecraft—capable of listening to the music of the heavens and hunting for exoplanets—is to be retired from...
News Sciences InstitutionalJune 24, 2013 -
CoRoT’s haul of 25 exoplanets
After 5 years in orbit, CNES’s space telescope just keeps on surprising with the quality of its observations. Olivier La Marle, astrophysics programmes coordinator at CNES,...
News Sciences InstitutionalJanuary 4, 2012 -
COROT and asteroseismology
Who does remember that CoRoT (Convection, Rotation & planetary Transits) was, at first, an asteroseismology mission? When the proposition was firstly submitted to CNES, during...
News Sciences Science and technologyOctober 28, 2011 -
Five observatories for a single star cluster!
An international campaign brought together 4 space observatories: CoRoT, Spitzer, Chandra and MOST as well as the VLT in Chile which took place from September 2011 to mi-January...
News Sciences Science and technologySeptember 30, 2011 -
From Corot 16-b to Corot 24-b and 24-c
The CoRoT satellite identified 10 new exoplanets by transit, then confirmed by ground observations. Seven of them are "hot Jupiters", sometimes with unusual...
News Sciences Science and technologyJune 14, 2011 -
A remote star with a magnetic activity cycle...
Thanks to CoRoT (Convection, Rotation & planetary Transits) satellite products, an international team, including French investigators of the CEA, the OMP and the Observatory...
News Sciences Science and technologyAugust 26, 2010 -
CoRoT discovers 7 new planets
CNES’s exoplanet-hunting spacecraft has made a series of new discoveries, reaping a rich harvest of data to help scientists better understand these far-off “solar systems”.
News Sciences InstitutionalJune 14, 2010 -
CoRoT uncovers a new Sun
Since 2006, CNES’s CoRoT satellite has been probing the stars in our Galaxy. With the data it has amassed, an international team has discovered a star that vibrates just like our...
News Sciences InstitutionalJune 14, 2010 -
Seven new planets for COROT
An international team made up of some 50 researchers works on the analysis of CoRoT’s observations on a daily basis. This team announced last month the discovery of six new...
News Sciences Science and technologyMarch 17, 2010 -
CoRot-9 b, a very promising exoplanet
Orbiting its star at the same distance as Mercury and passing in front of it regularly, CoRoT-9 b –an exoplanet the same size as Jupiter– has a strong potential for future...
News Sciences Science and technologyMarch 17, 2010 -
CoRoT makes tantalizing new discovery
CNES’s space telescope recently detected the transit of a temperate Jupiter-sized exoplanet 1,500 light-years from Earth. This discovery will teach us more about similar types of...
News Sciences InstitutionalMarch 17, 2010 -
CoRoT mission extended for three more years
The CoRoT spacecraft is approaching the end of its scheduled mission, but the space telescope’s rich haul of discoveries has left everyone wanting more. In concert with its...
News Sciences InstitutionalOctober 29, 2009 -
CoRoT - Exoplanet revealed in February is Earth-...
CNES’s space telescope detected its 1st Earth-like exoplanet in 2008. Ground observations have now confirmed it is a solid, rocky world.
News Sciences InstitutionalSeptember 22, 2009 -
CoRoT-7b, the first super-earth discovered
In February 3rd, 2009, the CoRoT scientific team announced the first exoplanet the telluric nature of which was no doubt.
News Sciences Science and technologyFebruary 20, 2009 -
CoRoT discovers “super Earth”
CNES’s space telescope has “unearthed” the smallest exoplanet observed to date. The announcement was made last week at the 1st CoRoT International Symposium in Paris.
News Sciences InstitutionalFebruary 12, 2009