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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 Mars. Captured by the microphone of the SuperCam instrument on board NASA's Perseverance rover, the signals were analysed by a team of scientists from the CNRS, Université de Toulouse and the Observatoire de Paris - PSL, working as part of an international team.

Press release, Villeurbanne, October 9, 2025. The past of the planet Mars continues to captivate the scientific community.

According to a press release from the Lyon Observatory dated September 4, 2025, based on a scientific publication to which Elliot Lynch, researcher at CRAL (ENS de Lyon/CNRS/UCBL), contributed as part of an international team: "ALMA Reveals an Eccentricity Gradient in the Fomalhaut Debris Disk", published in The Astrophysical Journal on September 4, 2025.

JUNO, a giant next-generation neutrino detector, has just begun collecting data.

CNRS press release dated 23 July 2025. Based on a scientific publication to which members of the Lyon Astrophysics Research Centre (CNRS, ENS Lyon, Claude Bernard University) and the LPENSL Physics Laboratory (CNRS, ENS Lyon) contributed: 'A Core-sensitive Mixed f/g-mode of the Sun Predicted by Wave Topology and Hydrodynamical Simulation', published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters.

O One of the main objectives of contemporary astronomy is the search for exoplanets, which provide a better understanding of how planetary systems form.

The longest organic molecules identified to date on Mars have recently been detected by scientists from the CNRS 1 , together with their colleagues from France, the United States of America, Mexico and Spain. These long carbon chains, containing up to 12 consecutive carbon atoms, could exhibit features similar to the fatty acids produced on Earth by biological activity 2 .

An extraordinary event consistent with a neutrino with an estimated energy of about 220 PeV (220 x 1015 electron volts or 220 million billion electron volts), was detected on February 13, 2023, by the ARCA detector of the kilometre cubic neutrino telescope (KM3NeT) in the deep sea. This event, named KM3-230213A, is the most energetic neutrino ever observed and provides the first evidence that neutrinos of such high energies are produced in the Universe.