CAGE Team News

30 January 2019

Press, Research

Xenon isotope anomalies in the mantle: implications for the origin and evolution of terrestrial volatile elements

The origin of volatile elements such as carbon, nitrogen, water and noble gases on Earth and other terrestrial planets is still poorly understood. Ans...

08 October 2018

General public, Press, Research

Moon formation at low temperature

As the closest and most visible celestial object to Earth, the Moon has always fascinated human beings. Yet questions remain about its origin. A team ...

08 August 2018

General public, Press, Research

Chondrules, a window on the early evolution of the solar system

In a study published on August 6th in the journal PNAS, an international team, led by researchers from IPGP and IUEM, presents an analysis of the evol...

28 July 2018

Press, Research

Mars, express formation!

The geochemical study of a meteorite makes it possible to evaluate the formation time of the planet Mars.

02 May 2018

General public, Press, Research

A giant planetary embryo revealed by inclusions in meteorite diamonds

A study by EPFL researchers, in partnership with IPGP, BGI and IUEM, of diamond samples found in a ureilite-type meteorite shows that their formation ...

22 January 2018

Press, Research

The impactor that struck the Earth to create the Moon was no bigger than Mars

It was in the mid-1970s that astronomers proposed the current theory of the Moon's formation: our satellite was created by a giant collision between t...

01 August 2017

Research

The Moon, a very down-to-earth composition

Two researchers from the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris and Université Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paolo Sossi and Frédéric Moynier, shed a new light...

28 March 2017

Press, Research

Using zinc isotopes to trace Alzheimer's disease

Two Sorbonne Paris Cité University researchers, Frédéric Moynier, from the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, and Marie Le Borgne, from the Vascu...

23 March 2017

Awards and Distinctions, Institute Life, Press, Research

Sandrine Péron winner of the L'Oréal - UNESCO "For Women in Science" award 2017

The L'Oréal Foundation, in partnership with the French Academy of Sciences and the French National Commission for UNESCO, has been involved for 10 yea...

17 March 2017

Research

Solar wind settling on early dust, a source of volatile elements for the Earth

The origin of volatile elements such as water, carbon and nitrogen on telluric planets is still widely debated. Due to their inert nature, noble gases...

08 February 2017

Press, Research

What the first nuclear explosion tells us about the Moon's formation

During the first nuclear explosion on July 16, 1945, at the Trinity test site in New Mexico, USA (the "test" that later led to the atomic explosions a...

20 November 2016

Press, Research

Archaean microfossils lived in oceans at over 40°C

A wealth of evidence suggests that life on Earth first appeared over 3 billion years ago. However, reconstructing the conditions on the earth's surfac...