Science in the laboratory

How did the Milky Way form and develop its current structure? A new study published in the *Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society*, led by an...

NASA’s Dragonfly mission, dedicated to exploring Titan and studying its potentially prebiotic chemistry, has reached a crucial milestone with the...

An impressive lifting operation took place on 16 March at the Meudon site, marking a major milestone in the development of MICADO, the future flagship...

The beginning of February 2026 is a significant date for the research conducted at LIRA, since the dawn of the 21st century. The FIRST-PL (PL for Photonic...

With the latest Avatar film, set on Pandora, a moon of the gas planet Polyphemus located in the Alpha Centauri star system, the closest multiple star system...

A week ago, four lasers pierced the sky above Cerro Paranal in Chile. Fired from each of the four 8-meter telescopes at the European Southern Observatory...

For billions of years, globular clusters have criss-crossed the Milky Way, bearing witness to its formation and evolution. Formed either in situ, within our...

Using the Webb Space Telescope, an international team of scientists, including astrophysicists from the Paris Observatory – PSL, is gathering observations on...

The search for exoplanets is one of the major objectives of modern astronomy, as it provides a better understanding of the formation and evolution of...

In two articles published in April 2025 in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics and in June 2025 in Nature Astronomy, an international team led by...