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The Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus in 1986 portrayed a magnetospheric system now viewed as the reference for an extreme, asymmetric magnetosphere in our solar system. Flying a typical ENA […]
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Silicon carbide is a major component of stellar dust. Experimental simulations using the Stardust machine (ICCM-Madrid) have shown that silicon carbide nanograins can form from carbon and silicon atoms, and […]
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The SVOM (Space-based multi-band Variable Object Monitor) mission officially began its operational phase on April 23, 2025. The review panel for our first operational review (REVEX), held at the IAP […]
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The structure and dynamics of the Martian mantle are still poorly understood. Recently, a team of researchers proposed that Mars’s mantle contains a large number of heterogeneities inherited from the […]
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An international team comprising scientists from CNRS Terre & Univers and CNRS Physique observed an exceptional blue aurora at mid-latitudes, revealing unprecedented conditions of interaction between solar particles and the […]
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An international scientific team, including scientists from IRAP and led by LPP, has revealed, using data from the Cassini mission, that the interaction between Saturn and its moon Enceladus is […]
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The NectarCAM collaboration meeting took place from February 2nd to 4th, 2026, in the IRAP conference room. This meeting brought together all the project stakeholders from 16 European laboratories responsible […]
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At IRAP (CNRS, CNES, University of Toulouse), the AROMA molecular analyzer, a highly sensitive mass spectrometer employing a two-step laser desorption/laser ionization technique, enables the study of exceptional samples: grains […]
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Just 11.4 light-years away, two exoplanets have been detected around a nearby star. One of them, Gl725Bc, is located in the habitable zone and is now the second closest potentially […]