Many protoplanetary disks in which new planets are formed are much smaller than thought. Using the Atacama Large ...

Only a few years ago, astronomers heralded the discovery of a rocky world circling the sun 's closest space neighbor, Proxima ...

Scientists have detected radio signals from hot gas surrounding a supermassive black hole that existed 12.9 billion years ago ...

The smallest disk identified, meanwhile, stretched to just 0.6 AU – closer to the star than the Earth is to the Sun.

New findings from the ALMA telescope have revealed that planets are born in much smaller protoplanetary disks than ...

Scientists have made a stunning discovery of oxygen in the most distant galaxy known, raising questions about how galaxies ...

Astronomers have detected oxygen in the most distant galaxy ever observed, JADES-GS-z14-0, shaking up our understanding of ...

Scientists have gotten the best-ever view of 'space tornadoes' howling near the Milky Way's black hole. The cosmic twisters ...

"Unlike any objects we know, these filaments really surprised us. Since then, we have been pondering what they are." ...

Deep in the galaxy’s central molecular zone (CMZ), surrounding the supermassive black hole at the Milky Way’s center, clouds ...

The discovery, reported in two separate studies, was made possible thanks to the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), in which the European Southern Observatory (ESO) is a partner.

Astronomers have revealed that "space tornadoes" are swirling around the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky ...