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Over the past 48 hours, solar activity has been exceptionally intense, characterized by several major class X flares. These events generated significant solar storms directed toward Earth, causing a geomagnetic […]
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Around Jupiter, a gigantic disk of magnetized plasma undergoes constant disturbances. How does it maintain its balance? Thanks to the Juno mission, a CNRS Earth & Universe research team has […]
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A new comer has joined the quest for habitable worlds. At an altitude of 2,877 meters, at the summit of the Pic du Midi de Bigorre, the SPIP instrument has […]
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Jupiter and Saturn carve out gigantic magnetic cavities in the solar wind called magnetospheres. These cavities are filled with plasma originating from the intense volcanic activity of Jupiter’s moon Io […]
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Observations from the European Gaia satellite refute a controversial alternative theory and confirm the presence of an invisible component that makes up most of the mass of the Universe: dark […]
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Following the success of French contributions to NASA’s Mars rovers, CNES and IRAP are developing a miniaturized version of these instruments for future Mars and Moon missions. If you follow […]
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A decade of ultra-deep observations at Pic du Midi and the Haute-Provence Observatory Vega, the prototype of intermediate-mass stars, has revealed after more than a decade of observations a double […]
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The Perseverance rover has uncovered sedimentary rocks containing minerals and organic matter organized into structures never before seen on Mars, opening up new perspectives on the Red Planet’s past habitability. […]
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Since July 2016, the Juno mission orbiting Jupiter has been studying the properties and physical mechanisms of auroral imprints. A study recently published in the journal Nature Communications shows that […]