24 April 2020
A population of interstellar asteroids has been found hiding between Jupiter and Neptune
... proved that at least 19 of them belonged to another star system before joining our system. Led by Fathi Namouni, a CNRS researcher in the Laboratoire Lagrange, and Helena Morais, researcher at UNESP in Brazil, the duo explain that the...
31 August 2020
"Dry" meteorites unlock the origin of Earth's water
... surrounding the origin of Earth's water, researchers from the Centre de Recherches Petrographiques et Geochimiques (CRPG, CNRS/Universite de Lorraine) in Nancy, France, measured the hydrogen content, deuterium/hydrogen (D/H) ratio and nitrogen...
02 September 2020
Heaviest black hole merger yet is a first for discoveries
... typically detect,” says Virgo member Nelson Christensen, a researcher at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), comparing the signal to LIGO’s first detection of gravitational waves in 2015. “This is more like something that goes...
