News Archive 2023

2023/12/14

CSH at Physics Olympiad Camp

CSH and NCCR PlanetS visited the Physics Olympiad camp on November 2023. 100 Highschool students experienced and learned some fascinating facts about gravity, observation and space missions.

2023/11/29

An astronomical waltz reveals a sextuplet of planets

An international collaboration between astronomers using the CHEOPS and TESS space satellites, including NCCR PlanetS members from the University of Bern and the University of Geneva, have found a key new system of six transiting planets orbiting a bright star in a harmonic rhythm. This rare property enabled the team to determine the planetary orbits which initially appeared as an unsolvable riddle.

2023/09/11

SNF SPIRIT Grant for SAINT-EX

The team of Brice-Olivier Demory, together with researchers of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, has been awarded a SNF SPIRIT grant to keep the SAINT-EX Observatory's performance at its best. Congratulations!

2023/07/26

Elusive planets play “hide and seek” with CHEOPS

With the help of the CHEOPS space telescope an international team of European astronomers managed to clearly identify the existence of four new exoplanets. Dr. Solène Ulmer-Moll of the Universities of Bern and Geneva, and Dr. Hugh Osborn of the University of Bern, exploited the unique synergy of CHEOPS and the NASA satellite TESS, in order to detect a series of elusive exoplanets.

2023/07/26

Robot Team to Explore the Moon!

In this UniAktuell article you will learn more about the participation of Valentin Bickel, Fellow at the Center for Space and Habitability (CSH), in the ESA "Space Resources Challenge".

2023/07/26

Exocast - The exoplanet podcast

The monthly podcast about all things exoplanetary. An outreach project by three exoplanet astronomers, among them Dr Hugh Osborn, CHESS fellow at the University of Bern and MIT.

2023/05/25

Space Resources Challenge

A Swiss consortium comprising Dr Valentin Bickel, CSH Fellow, is the winner of the robotic “Space Resources Challenge”. Congratulations Valentin!

2023/03/15

Bern's Interstellar Head Chef

Maria Drozdovskaya searches for recipes every day. But not for balanced main courses or fine desserts, but for comets, stars, and planets. More on her research in this UniAktuell Article.

2023/03/15

ESA's Juice mission: From vision to mission

At the University of Bern, there are some people who have been involved with Juice from the very beginning. One of them is Yann Alibert. He was involved in a proposal to ESA for a space mission to explore the Jupiter system. More in the UniAktuell series "The people behind Juice"

2023/03/10

Artist’s impression of CHEOPS
© ESA / ATG medialab

CHEOPS Extension

After more than three years in orbit, the mission of the CHEOPS space telescope has been extended.

2023/02/17

Congratulations to Beatrice!

Beatrice Kulterer successfully defended her PhD on the 17/02/23 - Congratulations!

2023/01/31

Congratulations to Andrea!

Andrea Guzman Mesa successfully defender her PhD on the 31/01/23 - Congratulations!

2023/01/23

James Webb Space Telescope identifies origins of icy building blocks of life

An international research team including the Center for Space and Habitability (CSH) at the University of Bern and the National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) PlanetS discovered the deepest and coldest ice ever detected in such a molecular cloud. Maria Drozdovskaya is co-author of the study.