The CoRoT space telescope has made seven new discoveries during its observations from Earth orbit – six extrasolar planets and a brown dwarf. One of the new discoveries is the exoplanet CoRoT-13b. Dr ...
On December 27, 2006, a French-led multinational team (consisting of the European Space Agency, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Germany, and Spain) launched the first ever spacecraft to exclusively study ...
On January 4, 2007, media sources reported that pieces of a spent Russian SL-4 rocket reentered the Earth's atmosphere over southwestern Colorado and northwestern Wyoming and impacted near Riverton, ...
France's Corot planet-finding mission has sent back initial images from its high-precision afocal photometric telescope, which was designed to detect Earth-like planets orbiting other stars in our ...