Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, “Bacchante with a Panther” (1860, reworked c. 1865-70), oil on canvas, 21¾ x 37½ inches (all images courtesy National Gallery of Art) WASHINGTON, D.C. — To the savvy, ...

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 ...

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 ...

The COROT mission is scheduled for launch on the 27th December 2006, from Baikonur in Kazakhstan. COROT will detect planets orbiting around other stars and probe the secrets of stellar interiors as ...

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 ...

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 ...

The space-borne telescope, COROT (Convection, Rotation and planetary Transits), has just completed its first year in orbit. The observatory has brought in surprises after over 300 days of scientific ...

Rocky planets not much bigger than Earth could be detected by a space telescope called COROT set to launch on 27 December. The mission is expected to provide a better understanding of planets smaller ...

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. The unanticipated level of ...