NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope's fine-guidance system, which allows the observatory to lock very steadily onto its targets during observations,

The gas giant Beta Pictoris b, about 63 light-years away, has the mass of 10 Jupiters and a magnetic field thousands of times as strong as Earth’s.

Planetary magnetic fields shape atmospheric escape, mediate interactions with stellar winds, and encode information about planetary interiors, yet they have not been directly measured for planets beyo...

La Lune dissimulera l’étoile du Berger pendant un peu plus d’une heure, lundi, à la mi-journée en France. Une « rencontre » qui se produit en moyenne deux fois par an, mais qui ne bénéficie pas toujou...

The first adult T. rex trackway was confirmed, found by high school science teacher and amateur fossil hunter Kent Hups in North Dakota.

YouTube video by Monsieur Bidouille

Exoplanet reflection spectra contain a wealth of information, which we are now beginning to access. At a high spectral resolution, the rotation of both the star and the planet affects the shape of the...

La visibilité d’un article scientifique ne dépend pas que de sa qualité : elle dépend aussi de qui le lit, de qui le connaît, de qui le cite... et d'où viennent ses auteur·rices. D'où une question en…

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