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Forming Worlds Lab

Welcome to the code hub of the Forming Worlds Lab, an interdisciplinary and multi-national team of researchers investigating the formation and evolution of rocky exoplanets and terrestrial worlds of the Solar System. This platform hosts a number of open source planetary simulation codes, which we develop and/or substantially contribute to.

All codes listed below are executable stand-alone, are open for collaboration and are under active development for the purpose of scientific research. If you see new changes pushed to one of the repositories that are not yet linked to a journal publication and you want to make use of these, please do reach out to the authors first. If you have any questions or suggestions, please either create a Discussion, an Issue in the respective repository, or reach out via email to contact@formingworlds.space.

PROTEUS (Development Roadmap)
Coupled atmosphere-interior framework to simulate the temporal evolution of rocky planets.

Codes that are either designed from scratch or adapted for integration into PROTEUS:

AGNI
Atmospheric radiative-convective solver.

MORS
Model for the rotation and flux evolution of stars.

SOCRATES
Atmospheric radiative transfer code.

CALLIOPE
Volatile equilibrium outgassing from magma oceans.

SPIDER
Parameterised interior dynamics code for rocky planets with molten and/or solid interiors.

Aragog
Interior dynamics of solid, liquid, and mixed phase rocky mantles.

Zalmoxis
Model to calculate the internal structure of rocky planets and exoplanets.

Love.jl
Poro-visco-elastic solid-liquid tidal heating model

ZEPHYRUS
Atmospheric escape on magma ocean planets.

JANUS
Parameterised convective model of planetary atmospheres.

VULCAN
Photochemical kinetics model for exoplanetary atmospheres.

Codes related to other planetary modeling projects:

i2elvis_planet
Fluid mechanics and thermochemistry of the interior of planetesimals and protoplanets.

Erebus.jl
Hydro-thermo-mechanical-chemical geodynamic numerical code with a focus on thermodynamic reactions in a two-phase model.

THOTH
Model to calculate and analyze the thermal emission and reflection properties of rocky exoplanet surfaces.

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  1. PROTEUS PROTEUS Public

    Coupled atmosphere-interior framework to simulate the temporal evolution of rocky planets.

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Repositories

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  • FormingWorlds.github.io Public
    FormingWorlds/FormingWorlds.github.io’s past year of commit activity
    SCSS 1 MIT 0 1 0 Updated Dec 24, 2025
  • Zalmoxis Public

    Planetary interior structure model

    FormingWorlds/Zalmoxis’s past year of commit activity
    Python 3 MIT 0 5 0 Updated Dec 23, 2025
  • CALLIOPE Public

    An equilibrium model for interior-atmosphere volatile partitioning on lava planets

    FormingWorlds/CALLIOPE’s past year of commit activity
    Jupyter Notebook 2 Apache-2.0 0 0 0 Updated Dec 23, 2025
  • Love.jl Public

    Calculate the tidal deformation of solid and partially-molten planetary bodies. Forked from the original repository, which is developed by Hamish Hay.

    FormingWorlds/Love.jl’s past year of commit activity
    Julia 1 MIT 0 8 0 Updated Dec 22, 2025
  • PROTEUS Public

    Coupled atmosphere-interior framework to simulate the temporal evolution of rocky planets.

    FormingWorlds/PROTEUS’s past year of commit activity
    Python 20 Apache-2.0 2 75 2 Updated Dec 22, 2025
  • LIFEredoxsurvey Public

    Simulated LIFE survey to discover redox trends.

    FormingWorlds/LIFEredoxsurvey’s past year of commit activity
    Jupyter Notebook 0 0 0 0 Updated Dec 19, 2025
  • aragog Public Forked from ExPlanetology/aragog

    A parameterised convection model to solve for the interior dynamics of solid, molten, or partially molten rocky mantles.

    FormingWorlds/aragog’s past year of commit activity
    Python 0 GPL-3.0 1 0 0 Updated Dec 11, 2025
  • ZEPHYRUS Public

    Atmospheric escape from magma ocean exoplanets

    FormingWorlds/ZEPHYRUS’s past year of commit activity
    Python 4 Apache-2.0 1 2 0 Updated Oct 28, 2025
  • .github Public

    Description of Forming Worlds Lab

    FormingWorlds/.github’s past year of commit activity
    0 Apache-2.0 0 0 0 Updated Oct 28, 2025
  • MORS Public

    Code for stellar properties, rotation, and activity evolution. Originally developed by Colin Johnstone.

    FormingWorlds/MORS’s past year of commit activity
    Jupyter Notebook 1 MIT 0 1 0 Updated Oct 27, 2025
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