Solar System Evolution

The Solar System Evolution Group

The main research direction of this group consists of unraveling the evolutionary pathways of the solar system bodies, in particular Earth, Venus, and Mars, and determining the place of the solar system within the larger family of exoplanets. We cannot understand exoplanets without looking back at the cradle of life as we know it - the Earth. Why did the Earth become a habitable planet? Why did Mars and Venus evolve differently? What would modern instruments see if they looked at the solar system planets as they were billions of years ago? How probable was it for the Earth to stay habitable for such a long geological time, and can we expect exoplanets to follow the same path? The group investigates the long-term evolution of the solar system, its planets, their atmospheres, and the Sun.