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Artist’s impression of the exoplanet Epsilon Indi Ab against a black, star-filled background. The right side of the frame is occupied by the curved silhouette of the planet, which is partially in shadow. Its atmosphere features intricate, swirling patterns in shades of brown, dark red, and white, resembling dense cloud bands. In the upper-left corner, its parent star glows as a bright, orange-yellow point of light. The surrounding space is deep black, dotted with faint distant stars.

Astronomers find an exo-Jupiter, and it seems to have clouds

April 22, 2026

A scientific collage consisting of 112 square individual images from the Euclid space telescope, arranged in a grid of 8 rows and 14 columns on a black background. Each square features a different strong gravitational lens in the distant universe. At the center of almost every image is a bright, mostly yellowish-white foreground galaxy. Distinctive features of spacetime warping are visible around these central galaxies: light from even more distant background galaxies appears as glowing blue arcs, thread-like structures, or nearly complete circles known as Einstein rings. Some images also show point-like multiple images of the same background galaxy arranged symmetrically around the center. The details are extremely sharp, with additional tiny, distant galaxies and stars visible as faint points of light in the background of each square.

Euclid Space Warps – help spot galaxies bending spacetime

April 21, 2026

Germany’s role in preparing the citizen science project more

Person in dark clothing with crossed arms, casting shadow on wall: the Ugandan astronomer Geoffrey Andama.

“The best science thrives in community”

February 10, 2026

Geoffrey Andama was a mentee in the first round of the ARTEMIS program in 2023. Since September 2025, he has headed the Max Planck-Humboldt Research Unit at Muni University in Uganda. The new unit is dedicated to developing astrophysics and astronomy across Africa. In this interview, Andama talks about his path into science, the role of mentoring, and his vision for astronomy on the continent. more

Scientific visualisation of a collection of debris discs around stars, shown in many individual views and different orientations. The image shows ring-shaped and disc-like dust structures, some seen face-on as bright rings, others tilted or edge-on as elongated, spindle-shaped features. The discs display irregular brightness patterns, gaps, and asymmetric concentrations, indicating dust and rocky debris in orbit. Colours range from yellow and orange to blue, representing different visualisation methods or physical properties. All objects are arranged in a regular grid on a black background.

ALMA Reveals Teenage Years of New Worlds

January 20, 2026

New astronomical survey captures previously unknown growing pains in the lives of planets. more

Research highlights 2025

December 22, 2025

A look back at a year of research with many highlights more

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