NGC 6946 is a face-on spiral galaxy with a small bright nucleus in the constellations of Cygnus and seen behind the many stars of the Milky Way.

La 18ème édition du festival d'astronomie s'est tenu du 12 au 15 octobre à Marrakech et avait pour thème "La vie ailleurs dans l'Univers".

Michael Gillon and Emmanuel Jehin, members of the TRAPPIST team of the Liège University, have been made by the Liège's mayor Honorary citizens.

A star about the size of Saturn – the smallest ever measured for a "normal" star  – has been identified by an international team of astronomers with the help, among others, of the TRAPPIST-South telescope in Chile.

New observations made with the Kepler space telescope reveal the dynamic and fascinating architecture of the TRAPPIST-1 system, thanks to the precise study of TRAPPIST-1h, the outermost planet of the system.

Michaël Gillon (University of Liège) and Amaury Triaud (University of Cambridge) talk about the discovery of TRAPPIST-1 and the fact that we need to expand our search for life beyond the solar system. An article published in aeon magazine.

Michaël Gillon, astronomer at the University of Liège, nominated in the 100 TIME list, the list of the 100 most influential people in the world.

A conference with Michaël Gillon, Emmanuel Jehin and Julien de Wit, co-discoverers of the Trappist-1 exoplanetary system.

Following the discovery of the TRAPPIST-1 exoplanets , Mr. Matthew LUSSENHOP, Chargé d'Affaires of the United States Embassy, expressed the desire for a meeting with the team at the The origin of the discovery of the TRAPPIST-1 planets.

ULg astronomers discovered seven telluric planets around the star TRAPPIST-1. “The TRAPPIST-1 system is the largest treasure of terrestrial planets ever detected around a single star.”

This Sunday about 40 belgian people living in Morocco visited the new observatory of the Liège University.

Today the new telescope, TRAPPIST-North has ben inaugurated at the Oukaimeden Observatory in Morocco in presence of scientists of the Cadi Ayyad University of Marrakech and astronomers from Liège University.