When Buzz Aldrin stepped out of the lunar module on 21 July 1969, the first thing he did was to place a solar wind experiment…

The astronomer Monika Lendl has won the Look! business award for the Austrian woman of the year in STEM (Science, technology, engineering & maths). Monika…

Sascha Quanz was appointed the new professor of Exoplanets and Habitability at ETH Zurich on 1 June 2019. “I’m delighted that we can now move ahead…

Two years ago, the Icelandic company CCP, which markets and operates the EveOnline galactic conquest game, launched the “project discovery”, a concept of citizen science…

For the first time, an international team of astrophysicists, including members of PlanetS, discovered a new kind of exoplanet in the Neptun desert, an area…

Our Solar System may contain alien comets that were stolen from another star flying past 4.5 billion years ago. Far away in a distant cluster…

Bern in Space Berne celebrates 50 years of moon landing – When Buzz Aldrin was the second man to leave the lunar module on 21…

KELT-9 b is the hottest exoplanet known to date. In the summer of 2018, a joint team of astronomers from the universities of Bern and…

PlanetS was at the Fantasy Basel! And talked about many things with you!

A team of astronomers led by members of PlanetS has discovered five new planets with periods of revolution between 15 and 40 years. It took…