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The Nobel Prize in Physics 2019 goes to Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz
Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz from Switzerland have been awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics for their discovery in 1995 of the first exoplanet…
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CNES and CNRS renew their exceptional partnership
CNES President Jean-Yves Le Gall and Antoine Petit, Chairman & CEO of CNRS, the French national scientific research centre, have renewed the…
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Saturn’s moon Mimas, a snowplough in the planet’s rings
The Solar System’s second largest planet both in mass and size, Saturn is best known for its rings. These are divided by a wide band, the Cassini…
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A family of comets reopens the debate about the origin of Earth’s water
Where did the Earth’s water come from? Although comets, with their icy nuclei, seem like ideal candidates, analyses have so far shown that their…
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First ever image of a black hole: a CNRS researcher had simulated it as early as 1979
The first real image of a black hole, obtained by the international network of EHT telescopes and published on April 10, 2019 in Astrophysical…
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