"SPT2349-56 is a system so extraordinary that we may have caught one of the most massive clusters under formation at a very ...

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

Many protoplanetary disks in which new planets are formed are much smaller than thought. Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) scientists of the Leiden Observatory (the ...

Astronomers used ALMA to observe Proxima Centauri and found frequent, intense flares that could destroy atmospheres of nearby ...

Scientists have announced the surprising discovery of oxygen and other heavy metals in the most distant known galaxy. The ...

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

"As the large and bright discs are the easiest to observe, our previous view of the birth site of planets was biased." ...

Astronomers have revealed that "space tornadoes" are swirling around the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way, Sagittarius A*. The unexpected discovery came via observations of the ...

Scientists have discovered "space tornadoes" swirling in the centre of our Milky Way galaxy. International researchers made ...

Supernova explosions in this galaxy would have spread heavy elements forged inside stars, like oxygen, which has been now detected with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA).

Using ALMA, astronomers discovered that Proxima Centauri produces frequent, high-energy millimeter-wavelength flares that ...