News, Press Releases & Major Announcements

2025/07/03

Expo 2025 Osaka - From the Moon to comets: take a walk!

At the Swiss Pavilion at the 2025 World Expo in Osaka, JAXA and the Center for Space and Habitability hosted a special event titled "From the Moon to comets: take a walk!". The World Expo 2025 took place from April 13 to June 10 in Osaka, Japan.

2025/05/19

Slope Streaks on Mars - not a sign of water after all?

A new study led by the University of Bern and Brown University in the U.S. casts doubt on one of the most tantalizing clues that water might be flowing on present-day Mars. Researchers analyzed a global database of 500,000 streaks that occur on Martian slopes, concluding they're likely caused by dry processes.

2025/05/14

Venus more tectonically alive than we thought

Several tectonic processes are occurring beneath the surface of Venus, according to a new study led by researchers from the University of Bern’s Center for Space and Habitability and NASA. They found that many of the numerous “coronae” scattered over Venus’ globe are associated with gravity field perturbations.

2025/05/08

Making science tangible with art

How do you make the tectonic development of the planet Mercury tangible with a piece of paper? For planetary scientist Liliane Burkhard, the answer is clear: with the means of art. While she works at the Institute of Physics in the Space Research and Planetary Sciences Divison, she thinks not only in terms of science, but also in terms of artistic forms and structures.

2025/04/03

Congratulations to Christopher Broeg, new PI of CHEOPS

For more than five years, the Bern-based CHEOPS telescope has been providing highly precise data from space. At the beginning of 2025, Christopher Broeg took over the leadership of the mission from Willy Benz. Now the two have met for a conversation for uniAKTUELL.

2025/02/05

International Space Event at the Spanish Residence

Members of the CHEOPS team and Nicolas Thomas were invited to an international lunch at the Spanish Residence on 5 February 2025.

2025/02/03

AI unveils: Meteoroid impacts cause Mars to shake

A study led by the University of Bern shows that impacts on Mars send seismic shockwaves farther and deeper than previously thought and many of the marsquakes recorded by the NASA InSight lander are caused by meteoroid impacts.