The Excellence Cluster ORIGINS will start its next funding period on 1 January 2026!

ORIGINS researchers from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität of Munich, the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics and the European Southern Observatory discovered an unusual filament with an exceptionally narrow and straight chain of eight galaxies and a dozen massive hydrogen clouds.

Researchers at the ORIGINS Excellence Cluster, LMU, and the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) have developed a new model to explain the formation of giant planets.

Scientists at the ORIGINS Ice, Dust, and Sequencing Lab (IDSL) have demonstrated how heat flows through rock fissures could have created the conditions for the emergence of life.

A new study by researchers from the team of ORIGINS scientist Dieter Braun shows how the chemical properties of RNA molecules could have facilitated the emergence of complex life.