Using ALMA’s exceptionally sharp vision, astronomers have uncovered rings, gaps, and cavities in extremely compact disks ...

A major ALMA survey of young stars has uncovered widespread methanol masers and the first detection in space of fully ...

Like a portal to another dimension, a hypnotizing swirl features in today’s Picture of the Week. This is the spiral galaxy M83, also known as the Southern Pinwheel, located approximately 15 million ...

Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), astronomers have detected the magnetic field of a galaxy so far away that its light has taken more than 11 billion years to reach us. We ...

Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), astronomers have captured one of the most detailed three-dimensional views yet of a massive binary star system while it is still being ...

For the first time, ALMA traces polarized light to map magnetic fields in the high-speed winds of Arp 220, an ultraluminous infrared galaxy Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA ...

Swirling clouds, big colorful belts, giant storms. The beautiful and incredibly turbulent atmosphere of Jupiter has been showcased many times. But what is going on below the clouds? What is causing ...

At simultaneous press conferences around the world, including at the ALMA observatory offices in Santiago, Chile, astronomers have unveiled the first image of the supermassive black hole at the center ...

Ever since ALMA captured the striking image of HL Tau in 2014, revealing intricate rings and gaps in a disk around a newborn star, astronomers have sought to understand how such complex structures ...

At just over four light years, Proxima Centauri is our nearest stellar neighbor known to be a very active M dwarf star. Its flare activity has been well known to astronomers using visible wavelengths ...

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has once again demonstrated its unparalleled ability to push the boundaries of astronomical observation. An international team of astronomers ...

Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have made the first-ever observations of a circumplanetary disk, the planet-girding belt of dust and gas that astronomers ...