Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics Archives

Newly Discovered Object is So Close to the Milky Way’s Central Black Hole it’s Experiencing Warped Spacetime

Astronomers have spotted an object so close to the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way its experiencing warped spacetime.

The Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics has released the most complete catalog of the high-energy universe ever assembled.

Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics have successfully isolated the Solar System's ubiquitous X-ray glow.

Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics have discovered a distant protoplanet still in the formation process

Moons orbiting free-floating planets that wander the cosmos without a host star could sustain extraterrestrial life for billions of years

Christopher Plain·January 28, 2026

Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics have spotted the largest complex molecule in deep space ever.

Ryan Whalen·March 19, 2025

The European Space Agency's (ESA) Euclid space telescope is set to release its first data, a preview of new deep field space observations.