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With the 2018 award of the Cosmology Prize of the Gruber Foundation to the entire PLANCK space project team (https://gruber.yale.edu/cosmology/2018/planck-team), the PLANCK team of the Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et […]
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Based on new observational data, an international team led by ETH astronomers and including an IRAP researcher (University of Toulouse & CNRS) identified at least six candidates for ‘dark galaxies’ […]
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The SPICA infrared space telescope has just been pre-selected by the European Space Agency (ESA) to participate in the final competition, which in September 2021 will see the choice of […]
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SPIRou, the new spectropolarimeter and planet hunter developed for the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT), has successfully collected its first starlight. Ten years after its conception and after four months of intensive […]
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In a recent article published in the journal Nature, scientists including a researcher from IRAP (Université Paul Sabatier de Toulouse & CNRS) discovered a new type of magnetic process, closely […]
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By combining data from two major European observatories located in Chile, and those from the Hubble Space Telescope, a team of scientists composed of an associate researcher and an astronomer […]
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The 16th of May 2018 sees the eighth data release of the XMM-Newton serendipitous source catalogue (3XMM-DR8), the largest catalogue of X-ray sources from a single X-ray observatory. This new […]
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On Thursday 19 April 2018, Jean-Yves Le Gall, President of CNES and Antoine Petit, President of CNRS, presented the InSight mission (INterior exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport), […]
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Against all appearances, the “solar tornadoes” do not turn. This is the conclusion of the work carried out by a team of European researchers including an IRAP astronomer (CNRS & […]