CAGE Team News

04 March 2024

Awards and Distinctions, Press

Razvan Caracas receives the Dana Medal from the Mineralogical Society of America

Razvan Caracas is a CNRS Senior Researcher in the Cosmochemistry, Astrophysics and Experimental Geochemistry team at the IPGP. He received the Dana Me...

27 December 2023

Press, Research

Evaporation and recondensation of volatiles in planetesimals

Angrites are meteorites that come from asteroids representing the first differentiated bodies in the Solar System. These meteorites make it possible t...

25 September 2023

Press, Research

The evolution of the Earth's atmosphere studied using impact craters

An international team shows that rocks from the hydrothermal system formed following the impact of the Rochechouart asteroid around 200 million years ...

16 June 2023

General public, Press, Research

The IPGP, a long history of analysing extraterrestrial material

Last April, China offered France 1.5 grams of lunar rock. On Thursday 15 June, the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle announced the future creation ...

07 June 2023

Press, Research

Geochemical signatures of archaeological artefacts as tracers of Polynesian settlements

By using the isotopic signatures of Polynesian archaeological artefacts, an interdisciplinary team including archaeologists and geochemists from the C...

04 May 2023

Press, Research

The "Diagnose Alzheimer's disease with isotopes" project granted with an ERC proof-of-concept !

Frédéric Moynier, professor at the Université Paris Cité and cosmochemist at the IPGP, has obtained an ERC proof-of-concept funding to develop and app...

11 April 2023

Awards and Distinctions, General public, Press, Research

" Les Mondes de Saturne " awarded by the Ciel & Espace prize for the best astronomy book 2023

The Ciel & Espace prize for astronomy books goes this year to Alice Le Gall, Sandrine Guerlet, Sandrine Vinatier and Sébastien Charnoz for "Les mo...

06 December 2022

Awards and Distinctions, Press, Research

Édith Kubik receives the 2022 CNFGG PhD Award

Édith Kubik received the 2022 Geophysics Prize for her PhD "Elemental and stable isotopic fractionations of siderophile elements – Implications for th...

07 November 2022

General public, Press, Research

Solar system calcium isotopic composition deduced from Ryugu samples

Less than two years after the Japanese Hayabusa2 mission returned samples from asteroid Ryugu to Earth, new international studies are refining the pre...

28 June 2022

Press, Research

Zinc isotope anomalies reveal accretion of outer solar system material during Earth formation

The question of the origin of volatile elements* present on Earth is fundamental to understanding the evolution of our planet. A study carried out at ...

20 June 2022

Awards and Distinctions, Institute Life, Press, Research

Frédéric Moynier elected 2022 Fellow of the Meteoritical Society

Frédéric Moynier, a professor at Université Paris Cité working in the cosmochemistry, astrophysics and experimental geophysics team at the IPGP, has b...

12 January 2022

Press, Research

Formation of the solar system's first small bodies in two separate rings

The formation of small solar system bodies, such as asteroids and planetesimals, remains a mystery. While there's general agreement that their formati...