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The European Space Agency’s exoplanet-investigating spacecraft CHEOPS has had its mission extended until at least 2026.

ESA's CHEOPS mission is investigating the characteristics of planets outside the solar system and identifying "golden target" exoplanets for further analysis.

A Swiss-designed telescope travelling on board the CHEOPS space satellite has discovered an unusual new ring around the asteroid Quaoar.

A Swiss team has helped discover a planet of similar mass to Earth, but orbiting a star in the Alpha Centauri system - the nearest to Earth. When it comes to this line of research, Swiss scientists are leading the world. Exoplanet science is the most rapidly growing field in current astronomy, according to Britain’s Cambridge University – the alma mater of Isaac Newton. The venerable institution has just recruited Swiss astrophysicist Didier Quéloz, who helped discover 51 Peg b, the first identified exoplanet – a planet outside our solar system. During work on his PhD thesis in 1995, Qu...

New research explains how meteorites called aubrites may actually be shattered pieces of the planet closest to the sun from the early days of the solar system.