The cover of the CHEOPS space telescope was scheduled to be opened on Monday, January 27, 2020. The date is being pushed back by a…

Researchers determined the age of stardust from a meteorite to be seven billion years – the oldest solid material ever found on Earth.   Stars…

Before Christmas, on 18 December 2019, a Soyuz Fregat rocket was launched in Kourou, French Guyana, and put ESA’s CHEOPS space telescope into a precise…

Illustration – « La Liberté », 18.12.2019, Alex Ballaman

There should be interstellar comets hiding in our Solar system after making a journey of many lightyears. Maybe we have already seen one but believed…

The relief was huge when the Soyuz Fregat rocket with CHEOPS on board took off shortly before 10 a.m. MEZ on Wednesday, 18 December 2019.…

Liftoff is currently scheduled for Wednesday, December 18, 2019 at 9:54:20 CET.   On Tuesday morning, 1 hour 25 minutes before liftoff during final countdown…

Bern researcher and NASA take a cue from Silicon Valley to hatch Artificial Intelligence Technologies. Could the same computer algorithms that teach autonomous cars to…

In a very formal and festive ceremony in Stockholm, the Swedish king Carl XVI Gustaf presented the Nobel prizes to this year’s esteemed laureates, among…

Some of the Earth’s building material was stardust from red giants, researchers from ETH Zurich have established. They can also explain why the Earth contains…