This release is available in German. A bull's-eye in the hunt for planets: astronomers at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy have discovered and directly imaged a faint celestial body that orbits ...

(Nanowerk News) Astronomers want to record an image of the heart of our galaxy for the first time: a global collaboration of radio dishes is to take a detailed look at the black hole which is assumed ...

Different wavelengths of light swirl together like watercolors in a new, ethereal portrait of a bright, star-forming region. The multi-wavelength picture combines infrared, visible and X-ray light ...