News

11 March 2024

Press, Research

The NanoMagSat mission gets go-ahead from ESA!

The Programme Board for Earth Observation of the European Space Agency (ESA) has just decided to proceed with the NanoMagSat mission. This mission, in...

07 March 2024

Awards and Distinctions, Research

Kristel Chanard receives the CNRS Bronze Medal

​Kristel Chanard, a geophysicist at IGN within the geodesy team of IPGP, has been awarded the 2024 CNRS Bronze Medal. This medal recognizes the initia...

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...

23 February 2024

Research

Sediments from deep submarine basins reveal the history of mega-earthquakes in the Lesser Antilles

An international team led by researchers from the IPGP has, for the first time, traced the history of major earthquakes in the Lesser Antilles over th...

06 February 2024

Education, Institute Life

Job offers: three academic positions open to applications!

Two Assistant professor positions and one professor position at Université Paris Cité are open to competition in geosciences at the IPGP. Applications...

25 January 2024

Press, Research

On Mars, dust avalanches triggered by major earthquakes

By combining data collected by the SEIS seismometer operated by the InSight mission on Mars with available orbital data, a scientific team has reveale...

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...

26 December 2023

Institute Life, Press

Tribute to Paul Tapponnier (1947-2023)

Paul Tapponnier, a geologist who pioneered the study of continental deformation and founded the IPGP tectonics team in the early 1980s, died on 24 Dec...

29 November 2023

Press, Research

The geodynamic conditions for the formation of the Andes experimentally explored

A team of researchers has used a novel experimental setup to explore the geodynamic conditions under which compressive deformation of the upper tecton...

28 November 2023

Awards and Distinctions, Press, Research

Yann Klinger receives the EGU's Stephan Mueller Medal

Yann Klinger, head of the IPGP's Tectonics and Mechanics of the Lithosphere team, has been awarded the EGU's Stephan Mueller Medal, which rewards rese...

23 November 2023

Press, Research

A model of asteroid formation confirmed by observations from the Lucy probe (NASA)

A numerical model of the formation, at low velocity, of satellites in binary asteroid systems, published on 17 November in the journal Icarus, by a te...

15 November 2023

Research

Oceans on the verge of an asthma attack?

Is it correct to compare the future ocean to an asthma attack? To answer this question, Giovanni Aloisi, a CNRS researcher and geochemist at IPGP, has...