A team of astrophysicists from the Laboratory of Atmospheric and Planetary Physics (LPAP) has observed for the first time the fine details of the auroras on Ganymede, the only moon […]
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Three Earth-sized Planets Discovered In A Compact Binary System
An international team of researchers has just revealed the existence of three Earth-sized planets in the binary stellar system TOI-2267 located about 190 light-years away. This discovery, published in Astronomy […]
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A Giant Planet Around A Tiny Star
The host star, TOI-6894, is a red dwarf with only 20% the mass of the Sun, typical of the most common stars in our galaxy. Until now, such low-mass stars […]
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The Light Of TRAPPIST-1 b Reveals New Insights On The Planet’s Nature
New TRAPPIST-1 observations with JWST underscore the complexities of confirming a planet’s atmosphere using only broadband thermal emission data. This insight takes on added significance with the newly approved “Rocky […]
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Astronomers Spot WASP-193b – A Giant Planet As Light As Cotton Candy
Astronomers at MIT, the University of Liège in Belgium, and elsewhere have discovered a huge, fluffy oddball of a planet orbiting a distant star in our Milky Way galaxy. The […]
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Astronomers Discover A New Earth-sized World Orbiting Ultra-cool Star SPECULOOS-3
A new, Earth-sized planet orbiting an ultra-cool red dwarf star, has been detected by an international team of astronomers – just 55 light years away.
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Astronomers Discover Earth-sized Exoplanet Orbiting Ultra-cool Star
An international scientific team, with the participation of researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), confirms the existence of an Earth-sized planet orbiting an ultra-cold red dwarf located […]
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The Evolution Of Photosynthesis Documented By Thylakoids In Fossil Cyanobacteria
Researchers at the University of Liège (ULiège) have identified microstructures in fossil cells that are 1.75 billion years old.
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A Key Planetary System Helps To Understand Formation Mechanisms Of Super-Earths
A study led by researchers of the University of Liège and the CSIC – using observations from NASA’s TESS telescope – presents the detection of a system of two planets […]
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Identification Of One Of The First Multicellular Algae Thanks To Its Chlorophyll Fossilized For One Billion Years
Researchers from the Early Life Traces & Evolution Laboratory (Astrobiology / Faculty of Science) at the University of Liège have discovered the first in-situ evidence of chlorophyll remnants in a […]