The Insight mission took off on May 5, 2018 from Vandenberg mud in California, and is now on a long 6-month journey to Mars, where it will land on November 26, 2018. Its scientific objective is to understand how Mars was formed and how it evolved into today’s frozen desert. Among all the people who worked on this mission, we […]
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This summer, in parallel with the Fleurance astronomical festival, the Astro Jeunes 2018 festival was held. It has welcomed more than 220 children from 4 to 16 years old every day to help them discover astronomy and space in a fun and exciting way. This week, the UniversSciel association returns in video on this edition rich in speakers and exciting […]
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This September 12th we will commemorate Patrick Fleury, a physicist who was born to high-energy physics with the quark model and who left us sixty years later, after having seen the Higgs boson, and above all, these immense bifurcations that are astroparticle physics and gravitational waves. He was part of all these adventures and is recognised as a pioneer. […]
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In July 2018, a team of researchers went to Greece to track down geoparticles: this is the Geoparticles Experimental Excursion to Apollonia. UnivEarthS strongly supports the mission through project I2: Geoparticles. During the mission, interviews were conducted to explain the project and the actions undertaken in the field. Find below the interview of Jacques Marteau, researcher at the Lyon Institute […]
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Under the patronage of the Mairie du 13ème arrondissement and the Université Paris-Diderot Conference for the general public in the framework of “Des savoirs et des hommes” (Knowledge and people) Wednesday 5 September 2018 at 7 p.m. Etienne Klein (CEA Saclay) Ettore Majorana and Bruno Pontecorvo were part of the team of young physicists that Enrico Fermi had formed in […]
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