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When the MAJIS instrument, aboard the JUICE mission, crosses paths with the 3I/ATLAS interstellar spacecraft
The French instrument, to which the Laboratory of Instrumentation and Research in Astrophysics (LIRA) at the Paris Observatory – PSL is contributing, has...
The detection of radio bursts from stellar and exoplanetary systems
Building on the expertise of researchers at Paris Observatory - PSL, CNRS and Sorbonne University, an international team has developed a novel analysis...
Electric discharges detected on Mars for the first time
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...
Evidence of a Massive Stellar Storm on a Nearby Star
An international team of astronomers, led by ASTRON (Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy) and the Observatoire de Paris-PSL, have observed the first...
A mysterious gamma-ray burst, unlike any previously detected
A scientific team, including a CNRS researcher from the Paris Observatory - PSL, observed a gamma-ray burst that repeated several times over the course of a...
Primitive meteorites: a new study explains why they are so rare on Earth
While space missions such as OSIRIS-REx and Hayabusa2 bring back samples of carbon-rich asteroids, one question still puzzles scientists: why do we find so...
Astrophysics of the future: Observatoire de Paris-PSL, CNRS and their partners ready to take up the challenge
Observatoire de Paris - PSL and CNRS, along with their partner universities and organizations, are adopting a new scientific organization at the start of...
A new theory to explain the origin of water on Earth
A team led by an astronomer from Observatoire de Paris - PSL at the Laboratoire d’études spatiales et d’instrumentation en astrophysique (LESIA -...
First evidence of a super-earth ocean
Thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope, a team of French planetary scientists, including a CNRS researcher from Observatoire de Paris - PSL, in...
First observation of brown dwarfs very close to their host stars
In France, the scientists involved are CNRS, Université Grenoble Alpes and Observatoire de Paris - PSL [1] have observed brown dwarfs orbiting very close to...