If inflation happened, we’ll most likely be able to find out then—and if not, we’ll know that as well. Dark energy The Planck results also constrain the dark energy density in the early ...

5 Composition of the cosmos Estimates of the matter-density parameter Ω m and the dark-energy parameter Ω Λ from Planck. Combining data sets such as these with results from other missions allows ...

The Planck Telescope: News From the Dawn of Time Will a new picture of the universe’s first light overturn a theory that has reigned for 30 years?

Batteries are becoming more and more powerful. A discovery by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg could now give them a significant energy boost.

Heidi Planck was reported missing in October 2021 after she failed to pick up her son. Family and friends are still looking for answers, including using billboards.

Planck also reveals that the universe is some 80 million years older than thought, to put the age of the universe at 13.8 billion years old. Planck scientists also say there is no evidence from the ...

Scientists already know, both from Planck and earlier observations, that the CMB shows tiny density fluctuations, which then became huge over the next 13.7 billion years, as the universe expanded.

Yet if the density of the universe is more than the critical density, then that means it has enough mass to stop expanding, which is what the latest study using Planck data is suggesting.

A novel material has been discovered that is characterised by the coupling of a charge density wave with the topology of the electronic structure.

The Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics completes ten years of work on the software for the European satellite mission.