According to the most widely held astronomical model (the nebular hypothesis), new stars are born from massive clouds of dust ...

Gaseous water has been detected in the planet-forming disk surrounding the star V883 Orionis (ALMA) using the Atacama Large ...

Scientists detected water along with carbon monoxide in SPT0311-58 - made up of two galaxies - located nearly 12.88 billion ...

Of all the unanswered questions in modern science, perhaps the most talked about is whether we are alone in the universe. A ...

This suggests that NGC 5084 is host to a supermassive black hole tipped on its side, and scientists think it could be ...

The Atacama Large Millimeter Array, located in the Atacama Desert, is the product of a 20-year global effort by Europe, North America, and East Asia. With its 66 antennas sitting 16,400 feet above ...

By the time it was officially inaugurated in March 2013, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array —ALMA— had already begun to deliver on expectations. The year before, with only 16 ...

Using archived data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array Telescope based in Chile, researchers found that the galaxy also had a "small ...

The bright red-yellow streaks that have been superimposed on the image come from radio observations taken by the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), revealing regions of cold ...

This incredible image, taken for the European Southern Observatory by Alberto Ghizzi Panizza is taken from Pukará de Quitor ...

and excitation in galactic nuclei with Atacama Large Millimeter Array observations, and measuring the structure and properties cold interstellar gas in our own Milky Way. Instrumentation projects ...