ESA's PLATO mission has been given the green light to continue its development after a successful critical review on January 11, 2022.

A large part of the exoplanets known today are in very close orbit around their star, allowing very intense interactions between the planets and the host star.

Thanks to new numerical simulations, a scientific team led by researchers from the Astrophysics Department-Laboratory AIM of CEA-Irfu has succeeded in explaining why the magnetic field of the Sun reverses every 11 years.

The European PLATO mission definitively accepted at ESA. The PLATO space mission (Planetary Transits and Oscillations of stars) was adopted at a meeting of the Scientific Programme Committee of the European Space Agency (ESA) on 21 June 2017.

In a special issue of the international journal Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy of November 2016, devoted to the study of the tidal interactions, two researchers from the University of Namur and the Astrophysics Division- AIM Laboratory of CEA-Irfu have computed the dynamics of short-period planets of different types orbiting low-mass mass stars.