The flash is one of the most energetic short-duration gamma-ray bursts ever observed. For the first time, researchers have captured millimeter-wavelength light from an intense…
Astronomers detect the most distant galaxy rotation ever, suggesting an initial stage of rotational motion development. Astronomers have been able to detect more and more…
Astronomers have just discovered an unknown structure in a galaxy that had been hidden in the “shadows.” They accomplished this by extending the dynamic range…
Nearly half of Sun-like stars are binary. According to new research, planetary systems around binary stars may be very different from those around single stars….
Today, at simultaneous press conferences around the world, including at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) headquarters in Germany, astronomers have unveiled the first image of…
Scientists studying V Hydrae (V Hya) have witnessed the star’s mysterious death throes in unprecedented detail. Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and data…
Scientists using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) made a rare detection of a likely stellar…
For the first time, astronomers have detected a newborn star and the surrounding cocoon of complex organic molecules at the edge of our Galaxy, which…
Unlike our Sun, most stars live with a companion. Sometimes, two come so close that one engulfs the other – with far-reaching consequences. When a…
A Cosmic Whodunit: ALMA Study Confirms What’s Robbing Galaxies of Their Star-Forming Gas VERTICO Survey unmasks violent environments as culprit in mass galaxy quenching mystery….
A new discovery is shedding light on how fluorine — an element found in our bones and teeth as fluoride — is forged in the…
New study marks most distant detection of required element for life as we know it in a regular star-forming galaxy. Water has been detected in…
At ALMA, we are celebrating doubly: on the one hand, October is the month of Science in Chile, and, on the other, we commemorate in…
Proteins are polymers of amino acids joined together by the peptide bond -NHCO-. Peptide bonds are not only the ubiquity structures in proteins but also…
New study reveals that early galaxies have no fuel, and something is stopping them from refilling the tank. Early massive galaxies—those that formed in the…
Potential discovery of a circumtriple planet has implications for bolstering our understanding of planet formation. In a distant star system — a mere 1,300 light…
Unprecedent measurements confirm galaxies idle when they run out of cold gas. New research, published in Nature and led by the University of Massachusetts Amherst, has just answered…
The magnetic field is part of one of the four fundamental forces in nature. It plays a vital role in everyday life, from producing electricity…
