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Facts about comet 12P/Pons-Brooks
An evening visitor in the spring of 2024, comet 12P/Pons-Brooks is visible from the metropolis (...)
Lunar chronology revised by bombardment heterogeneity
An international team involving the IMCCE is recalibrating the study of lunar samples, taking (...)
Triton atmospheric pressure: a new value is obtained
Triton, Neptune’s main satellite, passed in front of a star on October 6, 2022. This (...)
Is it raining rocks on WASP-43 b?
By comparing observations from the Webb telescope with numerical simulations from a climate (...)
JWST witnesses the destruction of the equivalent of an ocean every month in space
An international team involving French scientists1 from Université Paris-Saclay, Université (...)
Presence of a "young" ocean under the Mimas ice sheet
It’s confirmed! Mimas, one of Saturn’s small moons, contains a global ocean of liquid water (...)
The aurora of Enceladus reveals itself one last time to Cassini
On September 14, 2017, during its final orbit around Saturn, the Cassini space probe observed (...)
PSL establishments and the immigration bill
On the very evening of the adoption of the immigration bill by the Senate and the National (...)
Cosmic dawn observational progress with NenuFAR
The NenuFAR Cosmic Dawn project has taken an important step in the exploration of the Cosmic (...)
Pulsar emits highest-energy radiation ever observed
On Thursday, October 5, 2023, a press alert appeared in Nature Astronomy about recent work by (...)
Radio bursts: from Jupiter to the stars
The combined results of two recent papers illustrate how studies of radio emissions from (...)
Probing the interstellar medium of a very distant galaxy
A scientific team involving GEPI at the Paris Observatory - PSL observed with the ESO/VLT (...)