Today, ESO has signed an agreement with a large international consortium for the design and construction of the Multi-Object Spectrograph (MOSAIC), an instrument for ESO’s Extremely Large Telescope (ELT). Able […]
Electric discharges have for the first time been recorded within the storms and whirlwinds of dust – known as dust devils – that sweep across the surface of Mars. Captured […]
As part of the MACIV project, funded by the French National Research Agency (ANR), a team of scientists deployed the largest mobile seismological network ever installed by a university team […]
A team of scientists from several CNRS laboratories has just carried out a precise analysis of the source of the Mandalay earthquake of March 28, 2025 (Mw 7.7) using images […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]