An interdisciplinary research project between the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg (MPIA) and the universities of Heidelberg and Montpellier (France) aims to solve a mystery that is currently occupying astrophysicists: Was the early universe carbon rich?  The German Research Foundation (DFG) and the French National Research Agency (ANR) are now providing a total of 900,000 Euros for this challenging project. more

As the first in a new mission class, PRIMA advances to the stage of developing a full preliminary design. more

Astronomers captured the first complete image of a gas giant forming in the WISPIT 2 protoplanetary disk, revealing swirling gas interactions. more

Beyond probing the history of the universe, the NASA space telescope will test a new technique for examining exoplanets. more

The Roman Space Telescope is designed to directly image exoplanets using complex opto-mechanical systems developed by the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy more