Homepage Newsroom Astrophysics Cosmic brick factory January 21, 2021 Astronomy Astrophysics A new instrument reveals the site for planet birth around a young star more The dance of massive stellar couples January 20, 2021 Astronomy Astrophysics Astronomers find evidence for stars of young binary systems to approach one another within the first million years after birth more Scientific highlights 2020 December 21, 2020 Ageing Astronomy Astrophysics Black Holes Brain Corona Evolutionary Biology Galaxies Genome Editing (Crispr) Language Materials Sciences (M&T) Neanderthals Neurobiology Quantum Physics Structural Biology Synthetic Biology Many publications by Max Planck scientists in 2020 were of great social relevance or met with a great media response. We have selected 13 articles to present you with an overview of some noteworthy research of the year more Double success December 14, 2020 Astrophysics Awards Immunobiology Asifa Akhtar and Volker Springel are honoured with the 2021 Leibniz Prize of the German Research Foundation more A huge hourglas in the Milky Way December 09, 2020 Astronomy Astrophysics Galaxies X-ray telescope eROSITA detects hot gas structures above and below the Galactic disc more Show more