Like a portal to another dimension, a hypnotizing swirl features in today’s Picture of the Week. This is the spiral ...

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) is preparing to begin Cycle 13 science observations on 1 October 2026 ...

Throughout October, Chile’s Science Month, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) will open its doors to the community with two special public visits to its Operations Support ...

Here you will find Local, Internal and International Job Opportunities. ALMA Observatory and it´s Executives (ESO, NRAO, and NAOJ), are equal opportunity employers and diversity is considered an ...

Methanol-rich interstellar comet offers a glimpse into planet formation beyond our Solar System Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have detected an unusually ...

Astronomers have used the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to map, for the first time, the mass distribution of the gas and dust clumps from which new stars are born—the so-called ...

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 ...

ALMA detects the earliest hot intracluster atmosphere ever seen, revealing a huge thermal reservoir, and forcing astronomers to reconsider how galaxy clusters grew in the early universe Looking back ...

A remarkably detailed image obtained with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) reveals the uneven surface of Betelgeuse, the famous red supergiant in the constellation Orion. The ...

The Edgeworth-Kuiper Belt (or simply the Kuiper Belt) is a huge structure extending 30 to 50 times the distance from the Earth to the Sun. It is full of icy and rocky objects. But where does it come ...

An international collaboration led by Assistant Professor Takuya Hashimoto (University of Tsukuba, Japan) and Researcher Javier Álvarez-Márquez (Spanish Center for Astrobiology) has used the James ...

Most stars form in molecular clusters, with specific environmental conditions dictating how planetary systems develop. Nearby massive stars can also influence by intense ionizing radiation, which can ...