Jupiter’s vast magnetosphere is filled with a plasma of electrons and ions, mainly produced by the intense volcanic activity of the moon Io. Driven into rapid rotation by Jupiter’s intense […]
15 years ago, NASA launched the Fermi space mission, equipped with a telescope capable of observing the gamma rays of the universe, at energies several billion to several hundred billion […]
Research led by Elias Kammoun, a post-doctoral fellow at the Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie (Université Paul Sabatier de Toulouse, CNRS and CNES), has revealed the existence of […]
The launch of JUICE is scheduled for April 13, 2023, with the most massive planet in the solar system as its target: Jupiter, and its magnetosphere. With its rapid rotation […]
The Euclid satellite, to be launched in July 2023, will attempt to unlock the secrets of the Universe by exploring the composition and evolution of the dark Universe. For 6 […]
SVOM is a Franco-Chinese space mission dedicated to the study of the transient sky with a particular interest in gamma-ray bursts. SVOM will work in synergy with ground-based gravitational wave […]
During the last fifty years, our natural satellite, the Moon, has been the target of human expeditions (Apollo missions) (1969-72) and robotic return of samples (Luna 16, 20, 24 (1970-1976), […]
An international team, involving CNRS-INSU laboratories, has conducted a study that led to the discovery and characterization of a new planet named TOI-1695b. Barely twice as big and six times […]
At each of its orbits, the Juno probe amazes us with its images of Jupiter’s polar auroras, but also with its measurements of particles, magnetic field and electromagnetic waves that […]