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

“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 ...

Molecular emission lines from mysterious icy objects captured by the ALMA telescope. The background image is an infrared composite color map, where 1.2-micron light is shown in cyan and 4.5-micron ...

Related: James Webb telescope spots a dozen newborn stars spewing ... made by the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) telescope and the Hubble Space Telescope.

Using the ALMA telescope to observe the Small Magellanic Cloud -- whose environment is similar to the early universe -- they observed that about 60% of the observed clouds had the common ...

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) ...

Since ALMA’s inauguration, there has been a steady stream of other discoveries. In July 2013 astronomers reported that the telescope's observations had helped solve a long-standing puzzle ...

"It's a bigger jump than Hubble was over any existing ground telescope," Puxley said. "And when we think of Hubble's incredible results, it's hard to imagine what will come out of ALMA." ...

Circles indicate the positions observed by the ALMA telescope, with the corresponding enlarged image of the observed molecular cloud from radio waves emitted by carbon monoxide. The enlarged pictures ...

which smash together within these belts to produce the pebbles that we observe here with the ALMA and SMA arrays of telescopes," said Luca Matrà of Trinity College Dublin in Ireland, and ...

Circles indicate the positions observed by the ALMA telescope, with the corresponding enlarged image of the observed molecular cloud from radio waves emitted by carbon monoxide. The enlarged ...