We're the Forming Worlds Lab at the Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, University of Groningen. We study how rocky planets form and evolve, and what makes a world habitable, from early magma oceans to the atmospheres of distant exoplanets 🪐. We model planetary interiors and atmospheres together, and we build the open-source PROTEUS framework our science runs on, in the open.

Over the coming days, we'll introduce our group members one by one, and the research projects each of them leads.

After that, expect regularly:
🪐 the wonder of rocky planets and alien worlds
recent papers and science results
conference updates and talks
life in the Forming Worlds Lab

It's an exciting time to explore other worlds. Glad to have you here, follow along!

Web: https://formingworlds.space
Code: https://github.com/FormingWorlds
PROTEUS: https://proteus-framework.org

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