Associate or Assistant (tenure track) Professor position at the Department of Astronomy of the University of Geneva in the domain of climatology and habitability of…

In our previous update, we reported on the delivery of the CHEOPS telescope from Florence to Bern. While the scientific payload is being assembled in…

An international team of astronomers, including PlanetS members and associates at the universities of Bern and Geneva, and at ETHZ , discovered an exoplanet by…

ESA launches Europe’s largest exoplanet research mission, with partners from the Universities of Geneva and Bern. PLATO, the largest European exoplanet research mission, was adopted today by…

The Center for Space and Habitability at the University of Bern (CSH), the University of Geneva (UNIGE), and their partners built and configured a remote-controllable…

With his bright red colored hair Konstantin Batygin looks more like a rock musician than an astrophysicist. In fact, he is both: Assistant Professor of…

SPIRou is a near infra red instrument mainly designed to detect exoplanets by measuring radial velocities of M dwarf stars and to study star and…

The avatar of Michel Mayor which will be implemented in the video game Eve Online is ready. CCP, the firm which had the idea to…

After 60 hours of non-stop work, researchers at the University of Bern being part of an international team reached their hoped-for goal: They were the…

The Next-Generation Transit Survey (NGTS) project is dedicated to finding Neptune sized transiting exoplanets around bright southern hemisphere host stars. It builds on over a…