Extreme Alien World: Strange Exoplanet Has a Complex and Exotic Atmosphere
An international team including researchers from the University of Bern and the University of Geneva as well as the National Centre of Competence in Research…
An international team including researchers from the University of Bern and the University of Geneva as well as the National Centre of Competence in Research…
In order to fight the pandemic in the long term, it is crucial to understand why one variant prevails over another. An international study conducted…
Led by the University of Bern, an international research team has discovered a sub-Neptune exoplanet orbiting a red dwarf star. The discovery was also made…
A compositional link between planets and their respective host star has long been assumed in astronomy. For the first time now, a team of scientists,…
The Bernese theoretical astrophysicist Kevin Heng has achieved a rare feat: On paper, he has derived novel solutions to an old mathematical problem needed to…
Photobombs — when something or someone unexpectedly enters a camera’s field of sight during the taking of a photograph — happen every day. Sometimes it…
It could be a milestone on the path to detecting life on other planets: Scientists under the leadership of the University of Bern and of…
Researchers from the Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research at the University of Bern have, for the first time, reconstructed mean ocean temperatures over the…
The weathering of silicate rocks plays an important role to keep the climate on Earth clement. Scientists led by the University of Bern and the…
Until now, researchers have found no evidence of global tectonic activity on planets outside our solar system. Under the leadership of the University of Bern…
How dangerous are new mutations of the SARS-CoV-2 virus? An international team involving researchers from the Institute of Virology and Immunology (IVI) of the Federal…
An international research team led by the University of Bern has discovered an exotic binary system composed of two young planet-like objects, orbiting around each…
The “SAINT-EX” Observatory, led by scientists from the National Centre of Competence in Research NCCR PlanetS of the University of Bern and the University of…
Heatwaves in the world’s oceans have become over 20 times more frequent due to human influence. This is what researchers from the Oeschger Centre for…
An international team of researchers led by the National Centre of Competence in Research PlanetS of the University of Bern and the University of Geneva…
Researchers at the University of Bern have developed the highly sensitive ORIGIN instrument, which can provide proof of the smallest amounts of traces of life,…
Eight months after the space telescope CHEOPS started its journey into space, the first scientific publication using data from CHEOPS has been issued. CHEOPS is…
In the aurora borealis on Earth, electrically charged particles of the solar wind move along the Earth’s magnetic field. At high latitudes, these strike nitrogen…