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Origins Theme News
12 November 2019
Press, Research
The first solar system solids created in less than a week
A team of researchers from the Centre de recherches pétrographiques et géochimiques (CRPG/CNRS/Université de Lorraine), the Institut de minéralogie, d...
04 October 2019
Press, Research
Not so young, Saturn's rings
Did Saturn's rings only appear during the age of the dinosaurs? The announcement came as a (media) bombshell at the end of the Cassini mission, which ...
01 October 2019
Press, Research
Plate tectonics, a very old story
Researchers at IPGP have demonstrated for the first time that plate tectonics were already active on Earth 4 billion years ago. Their study shows that...
10 July 2019
Press, Research
MoMARSAT Sea Campaign 2019
Conducted by IFREMER and the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP-Université de Paris), the MOMARSAT 2019 at-sea campaign runs from June 11 to...
17 June 2019
Press, Research
Cassini gradually lifts the veil on Saturn's rings
NASA's Cassini probe, which orbited Saturn from 2004 to 2017, changed its trajectory during the final phase of its mission. Its objective? To carry ou...
18 March 2019
Press, Research
Asteroid impact crater - 14 km in diameter discovered in Nicaragua
The first detailed study of a large circular depression 14 kilometres in diameter in the mountains of northern Nicaragua, named Pantasma, shows that i...
25 February 2019
General public, Press, Research
When the Earth wobbled...
A sharp global drop in subduction flow around 700 Ma ago, at the origin of a very large pole drift in the Ediacaran?
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...
18 December 2018
Press, Research
Almost three quarters of terrestrial microbes hide in deep rock
Hundreds of international researchers who are members of the Deep Carbon Observatory, including Bénédicte Ménez and Emmanuelle Gérard from the Institu...
10 December 2018
General public, Press, Research
Titan's surface seen in infrared by the Cassini probe
Titan, Saturn's largest satellite, was flown over 127 times by the Cassini probe between 2004 and 2017. An international team comprising researchers f...
07 November 2018
Press, Research
Potential precursors of the first building blocks of life observed in deep ocean rocks
The origin of life on Earth is an extremely complex field of research in which several hypotheses have been put forward. Some studies consider extrate...
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 ...
