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! Planet S at Fantasy Basel + Exploration of the Solar SystemPanel discussion…

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…

Since its inauguration in 1969, ESO’s La Silla Observatory has been at the forefront of astronomy. Its state-of-the-art instruments have enabled astronomers to make fundamental…

The Bernese camera CaSSIS delivered new high-resolution, colour images of the surface of Mars. They show curious surface features, water-formed minerals, 3D stereo views, and…

Xavier Barcons is Director General of the European Southern Observatory ESO. Last week he travelled to Switzerland for the ESO Council Meeting that took place…

The NCCR PlanetS is now in its second four-year-long phase. 122 members and associates gathered at the end of January 2019 to review what they…

After being able to measure the masses and the diameters of exoplanets, using the information to deduce what materials they have formed from, astronomers now…

Emeline Bolmont has just been appointed Assistant Professor in the Department of Astronomy at the University of Geneva, a position funded by PlanetS. Originally from…

To find out how planets form, astrophysicists run complicated and time consuming computer calculations. Members of the NCCR PlanetS in Bern have now developed a…