Scientists have discovered two enigmatic icy objects in deep space that defy explanation. Unlike typical interstellar ice ...

Stars are born in dense molecular clouds, but did they always form this way? Recent research suggests that in the early ...

R Doradus, a red giant with a diameter 350 times greater than the Sun and located just 590 light years from Earth, became an ...

“The data indicates that the youngest stars form in filaments of gas,” Loeb said. “Subsequently the gas cools and fragments into later generations of stars in less filamentary structures. This ...

This gallery contains 74 images of different star systems with cometary belts (known as “exocomets”) taken with the Submillimeter Array (SMA) and the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter (ALMA) ...

Using new observations by its Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) radio telescopes in Chile astronomers were able to unveil intricate details of the Tarantula Nebula’s wispy gas ...

ALMA's antennas work together to scan the ... In 2011 engineers completed an operational facelift of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory's Very Large Array, which has been in operation ...

The central coloured structures were made by the high-altitude radio telescope ALMA. Image caption, The Hubble telescope uses near-infrared to see through clouds of dust and took this image of the ...

The Submillimeter Array (SMA) is an eight-dish array of radio telescopes near the ... pebbles that we observe here with the ALMA and SMA arrays of telescopes," said Luca Matrà of Trinity College ...