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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...
France delivers MIRS infrared imaging spectrometer for Japanese MMX space mission
On April 5, 2024, the flight model of the MIRS (acronym for MMX InfraRed Spectrometer) instrument was officially delivered, under the responsibility of...
Discovery of a record-mass stellar black hole in our Galaxy
By mining raw data from the European Gaia satellite, the DPAC collaboration has uncovered the existence of a stellar-type black hole whose record mass belies...