Gaia BH3 is an extraordinary binary system located about 590 parsecs, roughly 1900 light-years, from Earth. It contains a black hole about 33 times the mass of the Sun, the…
A new European Southern Observatory (ESO) study has found that current proposals to launch over 1.7 million satellites into orbit, including extremely bright ones, would have “devastating consequences for astronomy.”…
You are cordially invited to the Physics Department seminar featuring Prof. Georges Meynet…
Meteorites are messengers from interplanetary space that preserve information about the earliest moments of our Solar System. Yet once they land on Earth, their story does not stop: it continues…
The Atacama Desert, with its crystal-clear skies and high-altitude plateaus, serves as the stage for one of modern astronomy’s most ambitious projects: 4MOST (4-metre Multi-Object Spectrograph Telescope). Installed on the…
Le Printemps des Sciences, le rendez-vous incontournable des sciences et des technologies en…
Des météorites antarctiques aux dangers volcaniques, les 7 février et 14 mars, l’ASBL…
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Une étude pilotée par Cyril Tordeur, doctorant en sciences biomédicales et pharmaceutiques…
Un chercheur de l’ULB engagé au cœur de l’IceCube Upgrade en Antarctique. Felix Schlüter a contribué au déploiement d’une extension stratégique de l’observatoire. Un jalon majeur pour la physique des…
Un article Daily Sciences publié le 13 février 2026 A l’ULB, le BLUmonday a été lumineux et spatial
Le fameux « blue monday », ce lundi supposé être le plus…
On Monday, January 19, 2026, the Brussels Laboratory of the Universe (BLU-ULB) held its Annual Meeting (BAM'26) at ULB on the Solbosch campus, bringing together nearly 60 ULB researchers from…
The IRS sounder aboard the European MTG-S1 satellite, launched on 1 July 2025, released its first images on 27 January 2026, revealing an unprecedented view of Earth’s atmosphere. From its…