CHEOPS

Media Releases


More media releases in German.

12.02.2026 - CHEOPS detects a new planetary "disorder"

02.07.2025 - Clingy planets can trigger own doom, suspect Cheops and TESS

08.05.2024 - Hints of a possible atmosphere around a rocky exoplanet

05.04.2024 - First 'glory' on hellish distant world?

29.11.2023 - An astronomical waltz reveals a sextuplet of planets (esa Article)

06.08.2023 - Elusive planets play "hide and seek" with CHEOPS (esa Article)

10.07.2023 - Cheops shows scorching exoplanet acts like a mirror

09.03.2023 - CHEOPS mission extended

01.02.2023 - ESA's Cheops finds an unexpected ring around dwarf planet Quaoar (esa Article)

12.09.2022 - A thousand days of CHEOPS

11.01.2022 - CHEOPS reveals a rugby ball-shaped exoplanet (esa Article)

14.12.2021 - Two-year launch anniversary of CHEOPS

27.10.2021 - The upside-down orbits of a multi-planetary system

28.06.2021 - Unique exoplanet photobombs CHEOPS study of nearby star system

21.01.2021 - CHEOPS finds unique planetary system

17.12.2020 - One-year launch anniversary of CHEOPS

05.11.2020 - CHEOPS had to avoid space debris

28.09.2020 - First study with CHEOPS data describes one of the most extreme planets in the universe

16.04.2020 - CHEOPS space telescope ready for scientific operation

07.02.2020 - CHEOPS space telescope takes its first pictures

29.01.2020 - Cover of CHEOPS Space Telescope Open

24.01.2020 - Opening of the CHEOPS cover delayed by a few days

06.12.2019 - "CHEOPS ESA Broschüre"

05.12.2019 - "Swiss space telescope CHEOPS: Rocket launch set for 17 December 2019"

07.11.2019 - CHEOPS Team members and their favourite drawing

14.10.2019 - "They both live on another planet now."

27.08.2018 - Bern's CHEOPS is flying into space soon

22.04.2018 - Space telescope CHEOPS leaves the University of Bern

28.08.2017 - 50 years of space exploration at the University of Bern

31.03.2016 - Three thousand drawings to fly into space on Cheops

31.03.2016 - 3000 drawings for CHEOPS space mission on the Web

19.02.2014 - Further great successes for Bern's planetary research

19.10.2012 - ESA selects Swiss space project