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Origins Theme News
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 ...
25 September 2018
Press, Research
Cassini detects dust storms on Titan for the first time
Data from the international Cassini-Huygens mission, which explored Saturn and its moons between 2004 and 2017, have revealed what appear to be dust s...
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.
16 May 2018
Press, Research
What's happening in Titan's equatorial belt?
Over the last thirteen years (2004 - 2017), the Cassini-Huygens mission has brought about a real revolution in the exploration of Titan, Saturn's larg...
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 ...
30 April 2018
Press, Research
How can the origin of lead from multiple sources be determined? A new statistical approach.
Determining the origin of terrestrial materials is a major scientific issue that concerns a wide range of disciplines. It is an issue for geochemists ...
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...
29 March 2017
Press, Research
Publication of the book "From glass to crystal - Nucleation, growth and demixing, from research to applications"
Glass-ceramics are materials that are increasingly used in our daily lives, despite having been known for less than a century. This book provides a th...
24 March 2017
Press, Research
What if the first bacteria weren't the ones we thought?
A growing number of studies tend to show that colonies of bacteria live in the first few hundred meters or even kilometers beneath the surface of the ...
