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Erwan Rouille’s thesis defence will take place on Thursday, 6 November at 1:30 p.m. in the Evry Schatzman lecture theatre. It can be watched live on the...

Dominique Bockelée-Morvan, the world’s leading expert on comets, has been awarded the prestigious Prix des Sciences de l’Univers by the Henri Deslandres...

For billions of years, globular clusters have criss-crossed the Milky Way, bearing witness to its formation and evolution. Formed either in situ, within our...

On Thursday 9 October, at the Institut de Physique du Globe in Paris, the Pariscience festival presented the short films made as part of the Symbiose...

Ahmed Houeibib’s thesis defence will take place on Friday 17 October at 2pm in the conference room of the château on the Meudon site. It can be followed...

And that’s two! Guy Perrin, a researcher at the LIRA, has received his second award of the year - and not the least: the Officer’s Medal of the National...

Salvatore Ferrone’s thesis defence will take place on Monday 13 October 2025 at 10am in the conference room of the château on the Meudon site. It can be...

Selected by the ERASMUS+ programme (2024-2027), the Exo4Edu project aims to disseminate accessible and rigorous knowledge about exoplanets and the search for...

In partnership with the town of Meudon, LIRA is organising two major events over the coming months: an immersive exhibition from 3 October to 2 November...

The Paris Observatory hosted a landmark scientific event from 16 to 18 September 2025, marking two decades since the historic Huygens landing on Titan and...