Astronomers have dived into the turbulent and chaotic heart of the Milky Way, discovering hidden chemistry around our ...

The center of the Milky Way is an extreme place. In addition to housing our galaxy's supermassive black hole, it also ...

ALMA’s most ambitious galactic survey yet exposes a wild, filament-filled stellar nursery at the very heart of the Milky Way. Astronomers have produced a remarkable new view of the center of the Milky ...

Astronomers have captured the central region of our Milky Way in a striking new image, unveiling a complex network of filaments of cosmic gas in unprecedented detail. Obtained with the Atacama Large ...

Gravitational lensing exposed a distant protocluster once seen as a faint smudge, revealing eleven dusty star-forming galaxies through combined ALMA and NSF VLA observations.

A team of astronomers has captured the heart of our Milky Way galaxy like ...

The first European antenna for the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has reached new heights, having been transported to the observatory’s Array Operations Site (AOS) July 27, 2011.

The 1991 NRC decadal survey for astronomy and astrophysics included a project called the Millimeter Array (MMA). This instrument would be an array of millimeter-wavelength telescopes intended to ...

Astronomers have gained new insight into the formation of planets around twin stars that orbit one another. Despite the fact we are most familiar with planets orbiting a single, central star — like ...

The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), in collaboration with its Canada and Taiwan partners, Japan, Europe and Chile, inaugurated the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) today, ...

ALMA's best image of a protoplanetary disk to date. This picture of the nearby young star TW Hydrae reveals the classic rings and gaps that signify planets are in formation in this system. Credit: S.

The American Astronomical Society, representing more than 6500 astronomers from the US and abroad, released the following statement on the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA. This instrument is ...