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Illustration of the Earth and Moon against a black background: A quarter-circle of planet Earth in the lower-left corner with blue and reddish surface areas, debris pieces hovering in front of it, and one area brightly lit in yellow, presumably from a recent impact. In the top left corner, a greyish half-lit sphere that is the Moon, with a large bright-yellow area, glowing and sending debris into space on trajectories radiating outward from the impact zone. Image credit: universetoday.com Dan Durda

The genetic heritage of late accretion to the Earth-Moon system

July 17, 2023

Isotopic investigation of the materials impacting the terrestrial planets after their formation more

Images of earth and Mars side by side: a mostly blue sphere with a pale reddish landmass in the center mostly, hidden by while swirling clouds, on the left, three-quarter-illuminated, and a smaller, fully-illuminated reddish-brown sphere with some white patches on the visible surface on the right. Image credit: NASA/JPL

Volatile element delivery to the terrestrial planets – constraints from isotope anomalies

July 17, 2023

Earth Mars Moon Open PhD Project Planetary science

Cosmochemical investigations on the heritage of volatiles in Earth, Mars, and the Moon more

Silver Medal of ETH Zurich for Valentin Bickel

July 15, 2022

IMPRS Telegramme Moon Planetary science Planetary Surfaces Prizes

IMPRS alumn Valentin Bickel is awarded the Silver Medal of ETH Zurich for his outstanding Doctoral Thesis on the Analysis of Lunar Rockfalls more

Cosmochemistry group: Press releases

High-precision laboratory studies of meteorites as well as terrestrial and lunar rocks, which reveal tiny differences in isotopic composition, provide valuable insights into the formation and evolution of the early Solar System, enable dating important events, and help us understand how our Solar System with its planets, moons, and small bodies became what it is today. more

A meterorite: stony object cut in half, with a dark outer skin an granular inner composition. Image souce: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NWA869Meteorite.jpg

Research group “Planetary materials”

High-precision laboratory studies of meteorites as well as terrestrial and lunar rocks, which reveal tiny differences in isotopic composition, provide valuable insights into the formation and evolution of the early Solar System, enable dating important events, and help us understand how our Solar System with its planets, moons, and small bodies became what it is today. more