Publications

C. Burkhardt et al. "Terrestrial planet formation from lost inner solar system material". Sci. Adv. 7, eabj7601 (2021) ( pdf)
A. Morbidelli et al. "Contemporary formation of early Solar System planetesimals at two distinct radial locations". Nature Astronomy (2022) doi:10.1038/s41550-021-01517-7 ( pdf) ( supplementary)
P. Sossi et al. "Stochastic accretion of the Earth". Nature Astronomy (2022) doi: 10.1038/s41550-022-01702-2 ( pdf)
K. Batygin and A. Morbidelli. "A Self-Consistent Model for Dust-Gas Coupling in Protoplanetary Disks". A&A Volume 666, id.A19 (2022) (pdf)
T. Steller et al. "Nucleosynthetic zinc isotope anomalies reveal a dual origin of terrestrial volatiles", Icarus 386 (2022) 115171 (pdf)
D. Nesvorny, F. Roig, D. Vokrouhlicky, W.F. Bottke, S. Marchi, A. Morbidelli and R. Deienno 2022. Formation of Lunar Basins from Impacts of Leftover Planetesimals. The Astrophysical Journal 941 (pdf)
Nesvorny, D. and 6 colleagues 2023. Early bombardment of the moon: Connecting the lunar crater record to the terrestrial planet formation. Icarus 399. 115545 (pdf)
K. Batygin and A. Morbidelli (2023). Formation of rocky super-earths from a narrow ring of planetesimals. Nature Astronomy. doi:10.1038/s41550-022-01850-5 (pdf)
Woo, J.M.Y., Morbidelli, A., Grimm, S.L., Stadel, J., Brasser, R. 2023. Terrestrial planet formation from a ring. Icarus 396. 115497 (pdf)
Kleine, T., Steller, T., Burkhardt, C., Nimmo, F. 2023. An inner solar system origin of volatile elements in Mars. Icarus 397.115519 (pdf)
Hellmann, J.L. and 7 colleagues 2023. Origin of Isotopic Diversity among Carbonaceous Chondrites. The Astrophysical Journal 946. (pdf)
Dale, K.I. and 7 colleagues 2023. An improved model of metal/silicate differentiation during Earth's accretion. Icarus 406 (pdf)
Marschall, R., Morbidelli, A. 2023. An inflationary disk phase to explain extended protoplanetary dust disks. Astronomy and Astrophysics 677 (pdf)
Morbidelli, A., Batygin, K., Lega, E. 2023. In situ enrichment in heavy elements of hot Jupiters. Astronomy and Astrophysics 675 (pdf)
Woo, J.M.Y., Nesvorny, D., Scora, J and Morbidelli, A., 2024. Terrestrial planet formation from a ring: Long-term simulations accounting for a giant planet instability. Icarus 417. 116109 (pdf)
Scora, J., Valencia, D., Morbidelli, A., Jacobson, S. 2024. Forming Mercury from Excited Initial Conditions. The Astrophysical Journal 967. (pdf)
Griveaud, P., Crida, A., Petit, A.C., Lega, E., Morbidelli, A. 2024. The Solar System could have formed in a low-viscosity disc: A dynamical study from giant planet migration to the Nice model. Astronomy and Astrophysics 688.(pdf)
Pichierri, G., Morbidelli, A., Batygin, K., Brasser, R. 2024. The formation of the TRAPPIST-1 system in two steps during the recession of the disk inner edge. Nature Astronomy. doi:10.1038/s41550-024-02342-4 (pdf)
Ogihara, M., Morbidelli, A., Kunitomo, M. 2024. Super-Earth Formation with Slow Migration from a Ring in an Evolving Peaked Disk Compatible with Terrestrial Planet Formation. The Astrophysical Journal 972.(pdf)
Lega, E., Benisty, M., Cridland, A., Morbidelli, A., Schulik, M., Lambrechts, M. 2024. Gas dynamics around a Jupiter-mass planet: I. Influence of protoplanetary disk properties. Astronomy and Astrophysics 690.(pdf)
Morbidelli, A. and 14 colleagues 2024. Formation and evolution of a protoplanetary disk: Combining observations, simulations, and cosmochemical constraints. Astronomy and Astrophysics 691.(pdf)
Nimmo, F., Kleine, T., Morbidelli, A., Nesvorny, D. 2024. Mechanisms and timing of carbonaceous chondrite delivery to the Earth. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 648. (pdf)
Nimmo, F., Kleine, T., Morbidelli, A., 2024. Tidally driven remelting around 4.35 billion years ago indicates the Moon is old. Nature 598, Vol 636 (pdf)
Morbidelli, A., Kleine, T., Nimmo, F. 2025. Did the terrestrial planets of the solar system form by pebble accretion?. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 650. (pdf)
Rubie, D.C. and 7 colleagues 2025. Tungsten isotope evolution during Earth's formation and new constraints on the viability of accretion simulations. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 651 (pdf)

The following recent publications from our group are also directly related to the project:

2021:

Grewal, D.S., Dasgupta, R., Marty, B. 2021. A very early origin of isotopically distinct nitrogen in inner Solar System protoplanets. Nature Astronomy 5, 356–364. pdf
Jennings, E.S. and 6 colleagues 2021. Metal-silicate partitioning of W and Mo and the role of carbon in controlling their abundances in the bulk silicate earth. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 293, 40–69. pdf
Woo, J.M.Y., Grimm, S., Brasser, R., Stadel, J. 2021. Growing Mars fast: High-resolution GPU simulations of embryo formation. Icarus 359. pdf
Woo, J.M.Y., Stadel, J., Grimm, S., Brasser, R. 2021. Mars' Formation Can Constrain the Primordial Orbits of the Gas Giants. The Astrophysical Journal 910. pdf

2020:

Hopp, T., Budde, G., Kleine, T. 2020. Heterogeneous accretion of Earth inferred from Mo-Ru isotope systematics. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 534. pdf
Schneider, J.M., Burkhardt, C., Marrocchi, Y., Brennecka, G.A., Kleine, T. 2020. Early evolution of the solar accretion disk inferred from Cr-Ti-O isotopes in individual chondrules. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 551. pdf
Spitzer, F., Burkhardt, C., Budde, G., Kruijer, T.S., Morbidelli, A., Kleine, T. 2020. Isotopic Evolution of the Inner Solar System Inferred from Molybdenum Isotopes in Meteorites. The Astrophysical Journal 898. pdf
Kleine, T. and 6 colleagues 2020. The Non-carbonaceous-Carbonaceous Meteorite Dichotomy. Space Science Reviews 216. pdf
Morbidelli, A., Libourel, G., Palme, H., Jacobson, S.A., Rubie, D.C. 2020. Subsolar Al/Si and Mg/Si ratios of non-carbonaceous chondrites reveal planetesimal formation during early condensation in the protoplanetary disk. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 538. pdf supp

2019:

Burkhardt, C., Dauphas, N., Hans, U., Bourdon, B., Kleine, T. 2019. Elemental and isotopic variability in solar system materials by mixing and processing of primordial disk reservoirs. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 261, 145–170. pdf
Hellmann, J.L., Kruijer, T.S., Van Orman, J.A., Metzler, K., Kleine, T. 2019. Hf-W chronology of ordinary chondrites. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 258, 290–309. pdf
Lambrechts, M. and 6 colleagues 2019. Formation of planetary systems by pebble accretion and migration. How the radial pebble flux determines a terrestrial-planet or super-Earth growth mode. Astronomy and Astrophysics 627. pdf
Nanne, J.A.M., Nimmo, F., Cuzzi, J.N., Kleine, T. 2019. Origin of the non-carbonaceous-carbonaceous meteorite dichotomy. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 511, 44–54. pdf
Worsham, E.A., Burkhardt, C., Budde, G., Fischer-Gödde, M., Kruijer, T.S., Kleine, T. 2019. Distinct evolution of the carbonaceous and non-carbonaceous reservoirs: Insights from Ru, Mo, and W isotopes. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 521, 103–112. pdf

Lectures

Solar system formation - Part I: constraints (1h20)
Solar System formation - Part II: models and scenarios (1h30)
ISSI game changers lecture "Planet formation and evolution: Key processes to understand the diversity of planetary systems" (1h)
IFA cycle of lectures (Manoa, Hawaii, 2022):