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NASA’s Dragonfly mission, dedicated to exploring Titan and studying its potentially prebiotic chemistry, has reached a crucial milestone with the...

An impressive lifting operation took place on 16 March at the Meudon site, marking a major milestone in the development of MICADO, the future flagship...

Garance BRAS’s thesis defence will take place on Thursday 19 March 2026 at 2 pm in the Evry Schatzman lecture theatre in Meudon. The thesis will be defended...

Born in the 19th century from the intuition of a French physicist, interferometry has become one of the most powerful techniques in modern astronomy. From...

To mark International Day of Women and Girls in Science, celebrated on 11 February, members of LIRA rallied together through several initiatives designed to...

The beginning of February 2026 is a significant date for the research conducted at LIRA, since the dawn of the 21st century. The FIRST-PL (PL for Photonic...

In 2026, the Laboratory for Instrumentation and Research in Astrophysics (LIRA) will celebrate its first year since its official creation on 1 January 2025:...

LIRA is featured in a documentary produced by LeBlob, the media outlet of the Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie and the Palais de la Découverte, directed...

With the latest Avatar film, set on Pandora, a moon of the gas planet Polyphemus located in the Alpha Centauri star system, the closest multiple star system...

Lucie DEGOTT’s thesis defense will take place on Thursday, January 8, 2026, at 2:00 p.m. at the Institute of Space Astrophysics (IAS), in room 123. It can...