Newsroom – Category: Physics & Astrophysics

Discovery of giant exomoons around the planets Kepler-1625b and Kepler-1708b called into question more

Planets like our Earth, including planets with water, could form even in the harshest known star-forming environments, drenched by hard UV light from massive stars. more

Euclid space telescope delivers first scientific images more

The Euclid space telescope contains technology from two Max Planck Institutes more

With Einstein@Home and Zooniverse, citizens can identify previously unknown pulsars from home more

Electrons hold the world together. When chemical reactions yield new substances, they play a leading role. And in electronics, too, they are the protagonists. Together with his colleagues, Ferenc Krausz, Director of the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics in Garching, photographs the rapid movements of electrons with attosecond flashes, creating the basis for new technological developments. more

The scientist from the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics is honoured for his contributions to attosecond physics more

Two physicists and a developmental biologist will head the three new Dioscuri Centres in the Czech Republic. more

With the James Webb space telescope, an international team has captured a spectacular image of the object HH211. Here, a young stellar system ejects two supersonic streams of gas, which testify to the turbulent process of star formation inside the system. more

New physics-based self-learning machines could replace the current artificial neural networks and save energy more