ALMA – National Radio Astronomy Observatory

Comet’s Water Holds Clues to Life on Earth

New research has uncovered compelling evidence that water from a comet is strikingly similar to that found in Earth’s…

Astronomers have discovered a remarkably clumpy rotating galaxy that existed just 900 million years after the Big Bang, shedding…

Astronomers are getting a much clearer picture of what galaxies looked like in the early Universe, thanks to a…

An international team of astronomers has unveiled groundbreaking findings about the disks of gas and dust surrounding nearby young…

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has uncovered a key piece of the puzzle in how rocky planets, such…

A team of international astronomers have embarked on an exciting new project to hunt for planets forming around young…

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