As part of their research activities around magmas and planets, Max Collinet's research team analyzes meteorites and uses data from space missions to understand how the rocks covering the various planets and asteroids in the solar system were formed, and how our Earth is unique.

They reproduce the conditions of magma formation and crystallization in the laboratory and using modeling tools. They confront their results with those of geologists, chemists and physicists, both Belgian and international, in order to constrain the first-order processes that define the main characteristics of planets, including their habitability.