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Astronomers using ALMA have observed what may be the first-ever signs of windy weather around a T Tauri star, an infant analog of our own Sun.

ALMA and other radio telescopes provide the first direct evidence that merging galaxies can produce disk galaxies.

ALMA reached a major milestone by extending its vision fully into the realm of the submillimeter.

ALMA and VLA team up with other observatories for best view ever of merging galaxies in the distant Universe.

NRAO has delivered the first of ALMA’s four new Front End Handling Vehicles (FEHV).

Korea officially joins in the East Asia ALMA consortium.

Scientists using ALMA probed the atmospheres of comets ISON and Lemmon providing important insights into how and where comets forge new chemicals, including intriguing organic compounds.

ALMA took a detailed look at the dwarf planet Pluto and its moon Charon to help guide NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft.

While surveying a series of binary stars with ALMA, astronomers uncovered a pair of misaligned planet-forming disks around the young binary star HK Tau.

The 66th and final ALMA antenna has completed its long journey and arrived on the Chajnantor Plateau in Northern Chile.