Could Mars have had a tropical climate in the past?
Recent discoveries made by NASA’s Perseverance rover in the Jezero crater on Mars reveal fascinating clues to the history of water and geological activity on the Red Planet. An international […]
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The January 29, 2025 gamma-ray burst observed by TAROT telescopes
At 4:45 a.m. on January 29, 2025, the Swift satellite detected a gamma-ray burst from the explosion of a star 11 billion light-years away. IRAP operates the TAROT telescope network, […]
Studying pulsars, a window on our galaxy
Galaxies are complex ecosystems that still raise many questions for scientists. The GAMALO project aims to study a phenomenon that could provide a better understanding of how they behave: pulsars. […]
Extreme supersonic winds measured on planet outside our Solar System
Astronomers have discovered extremely powerful winds pummeling the equator of WASP-127b, a giant exoplanet. Reaching speeds up to 33 000 km/h, the winds make up the fastest jetstream of its […]
Well-awaited gathering with BepiColombo for its sixth Mercury flyby!
On 8 January 2025, the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission flew by Mercury for the sixth time, at an altitude of 295 km. This sixth and final flyby reduced the spacecraft’s speed […]
A comprehensive and modern description of magnetodisk physics at Jupiter !
The Jovian magnetodisk refers to a thin disc of plasma and electric currents in the magnetosphere of Jupiter located near the equatorial plane beyond the orbit of the moon Io, […]
The CTAO Becomes a European Research Infrastructure Consortium
On Tuesday January 7, the European Commission announced that it had granted CTAO (Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory) the status of European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC), a specific legal form under […]
Einstein’s equations collide with the mysteries of the Universe
Why is the expansion of our Universe accelerating? Twenty-five years after its discovery, this phenomenon remains one of today’s greatest scientific mysteries. To unravel it, we need to put the […]
SPIRou decodes the bursts of a protostar
A research team at IRAP (CNRS Terre & Univers, Université de Toulouse III & CNES) has just deciphered the origin of periodic light bursts from the protostar V347 Aurigae in […]