An incessant ballet of comets around the star Beta Pictoris
A team of French astronomers has detected no less than 30 exocomets in a planetary system 63 light years away. From time to time, a ...
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Heino Falcke, the Helmut Newton of black holes
PORTRAIT – This German astrophysicist amazed the whole world, and Europe in particular, by presenting, exactly three years ago, the first image of a black ...
The Long and Difficult Quest for Alien Life in the Solar System
QUEST FOR THE THIRD KIND (4/6) – Mars has long been the center of all efforts to find life near Earth, but the quest is ...
To find life elsewhere, you have to look for water
IN QUEST FOR THE THIRD KIND (3/6) – The search for extraterrestrial life, in the Solar System or on exoplanets, focuses on the detection of ...
Jupiter’s heart reveals its secrets
Experiments carried out for more than ten years by a French team make it possible to describe the deep structure of the largest planet in ...
Jupiter’s meeting with Saturn
INFOGRAPHICS – It is a spectacle which has not occurred with such ardor since Louis XIII. In the December sky, the two giant planets, Jupiter ...
Japan is preparing to collect stardust
DECRYPTION – The Hayabusa-2 probe is to bring back to Earth this Saturday small grains taken from an asteroid. It’s a pinch of stardust, nothing ...
Meteorites: doubts about the “great late bombardment”
DECRYPTION – This old theory on the formation of the Solar System is, once again, undermined by a Japanese study. Artist’s impression of a meteor ...