PARIS – The French-led Corot planet-finding satellite has discovered its first Earth-like planet – the first outside our solar system to be observed directly as it transited in front of its star, and ...

Astronomy & Astrophysics is publishing a special issue this week dedicated to the early results of the CoRoT space mission. The CoRoT (Convection, Rotation & planetary Transits) satellite is a 30 ...

The operations of the CoRoT mission has been extended for three additional years, until 31 March 2013. CNES, together with its national partners (CNRS-INSU and Observatoire de Paris) and international ...

An international team of astronomers has discovered an exoplanet–one outside our solar system–that has a more Earthlike orbit than any alien planet discovered so far using the same technique. Planet ...

Sounding the Sun through a technique similar to seismology has opened a new era for understanding the Sun’s interior. The CNES/ESA COROT satellite has now applied this technique to three stars, ...

COROT has provided its first image of a giant planet orbiting another star and the first bit of 'seismic' information on a far away, Sun-like star - with unexpected accuracy. COROT has provided its ...

In addition to its role as a central player in European Space Agency (ESA) programs, the French space agency, CNES, expects to continue building its own space-science satellites, and CNES officials ...

(PhysOrg.com) -- The CoRoT satellite has discovered a planet-sized object so exotic that astronomers are unsure whether to call it a planet. The object, named CoRoT-Exo-3b, is approximately the same ...

A European space telescope has discovered 10 previously unknown alien planets, including two Neptune-like objects that circle the same star, researchers announced today (June 14). France's CoRoT ...

astro-ph: “We conclude that, as far as we have been exhaustive, we have discovered a planetary companion, named CoRoT-7b, for which we derive a period of 0.853 59 +/- 3 10-5 day and a radius of Rp = 1 ...

Astronomy & Astrophysics is publishing a special issue this week dedicated to the early results of the CoRoT space mission [1]. The CoRoT (Convection, Rotation & planetary Transits) satellite is a 30 ...