Discovery of a nascent planet in close orbit around a young star
A study carried out by a team of CNRS Terre & Univers researchers as part of the ERC SPIDI (Star Planets Inner Disk Interactions) project, has revealed the presence of […]
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Europlanet SPIDER booth with JUICE scale model at ESWW 2023
The annual gathering of the Space Weather and Space Climate community, the European Space Weather Week, was organized by IRAP and took place in Toulouse on 20-24 November 2023. This […]
Delivery of the electrical model of the LEES instrument for the Comet Interceptor mission
The functional electrical model (EFM) of the Low-Energy Electron Spectrometer (LEES) instrument for which IRAP is responsible was delivered on March 5, 2024 to the Space Research Center (CBK) of […]
Scientists discover radiation from massive stars shapes planetary systems
How does a planetary system like the Solar System come into being? To find out, CNRS scientists working as part of an international research team (1) studied a stellar nursery, […]
CDPP 3DView web-service for SMILE SXI synthetic X-ray observations
The Solar wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer (SMILE) is a joint mission between the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). SMILE is designed to investigate the […]
The James Webb telescope witnesses the destruction of a terrestrial ocean every month.
An international team, including French scientists (1) from Université Paris-Saclay, Université Toulouse III – Paul Sabatier, the INCLASS joint laboratory (IAS/ACRI-ST), Observatoire de Paris-PSL, Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS and CNES, […]
Perseverance: 3 years of Martian adventures
3 years ago, on February 18, 2021, NASA’s Perseverance rover landed in the Jezero crater on Mars. The mission teams – more than 500 scientists and engineers worldwide – are […]
New clues to mysterious radio signals from deep space
Thanks to two NASA X-ray telescopes, an international team of scientists involving the Toulouse-based Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie (IRAP/OMP – CNES/CNRS/UT3) has been able to observe a […]
DORN instrument heads for the Moon
The DORN (Detection of Outgassing RadoN) instrument, dedicated to measuring radon on the Moon’s surface, was developed at IRAP-OMP. It will be on board China’s Chang’E6 lunar mission, scheduled for […]