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30 Years of Exoplanets: Didier Queloz headlines anniversary event
The University of Bern will host a public event on 19 June 2025, to mark 30 years since the discovery of 51 Pegasi b, the first known exoplanet orbiting a Sun-like star. The program will include contributions by Nobel laureates Didier Queloz and Michel Mayor, who discovered the planet in 1995.
SPECULOOS Consortium gathered in La Laguna to discuss exoplanet science
La Laguna, Tenerife, recently hosted the bi-annual meeting of the SPECULOOS consortium. Researchers from MIT, ETH Zurich, Bern, University of Birmingham, Université de Liège, University of Cambridge, and IAC gathered to discuss the search for rocky planets orbiting ultra-cool dwarf stars.
Prof. Didier Queloz will give a lecture in the "Space Research and Exploration" lecture series
Prof. Didier Queloz will give a lecture on "Discovering Exoplanets" as part of the ETH Zurich "Space Research and Exploration" lecture series on 3 December 2024.
News coverage on new paper by Didier Queloz and Peter P. Pedersen: "Detection of an Earth-sized exoplanet orbiting the nearby ultracool dwarf star SPECULOOS-3”
A group of astronomers, among which Didier Queloz and Peter P. Pedersen, have discovered a new Earth-sized exoplanet orbiting the red, ultra-cool dwarf star SPECULOOS-3. The planet was detected as it passed in front of its host star in a 17 h orbit and represents the second-smallest main sequence star found to host a transiting planet.
ETH Global Lecture Series: Life on Earth and Beyond
26 Apr 2024 - How did life on Earth begin and proliferate? And is there life beyond our planet? At this ETH Global Lecture, Nobel Prize winner Didier Queloz and former NASA research head Thomas Zurbuchen discuss what is already known about the origin of life on Earth and beyond, what projects are underway at ETH Zurich – and what life itself has taught them.