PARIS, Sept. 17 (UPI) -- The European Space Agency says it has completed a two-week "first light" assessment of its Planck space observatory and found data quality to be excellent.

STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Aug. 27 (UPI) -- List of Nobel Prize in Physics winners.

KOUROU, French Guiana, May 14 (UPI) -- The European Space Agency's Herschel and Planck satellites went into space Thursday aboard an Ariane 5 rocket from the French spaceport in French Guiana.

MUNICH, Germany, Nov. 10 (UPI) -- A German-led consortium of scientists says the search for the mysterious substance known as dark matter could soon end.

LEIPZIG, Germany, Oct. 15 (UPI) -- A German-led team of researchers has determined one of the last populations of endangered West African chimpanzees has alarmingly declined.

LEIPZIG, Germany, Oct. 15 (UPI) -- German scientists say they have discovered the first direct evidence of wild bonobos hunting and eating the young of other primates.

NEW YORK, May 2 (UPI) -- German scientists said temporary climate variations may temporarily offset the long-term global warming trend.

HEIDELBERG, Germany, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- German researchers have, for the first time, visualized vibration and rotation in the nuclei of a hydrogen molecule as a quantum mechanical wave packet.

HEIDELBERG, Germany, Oct. 11 (UPI) -- German astronomers are leading a worldwide effort to produce a revolutionary map and first digital "movie" of the universe.