In its first year alone, it will double the amount of data collected so far by every other instrument in the history of ...

Astronomers have used the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to peer into the early universe and uncover the building blocks of galaxies during their formative years. The CRISTAL ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists spotted thin and thick disks in galaxies as far back as 10 billion years ago ...

A new result from the molecular gas survey in the Southern Pinwheel Galaxy M83 using the Atacama Large ...

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to ...

"We have discovered a galaxy that has been 'perfectly preserved' for billions of years, a true archaeological find that tells ...

Understanding how the universe transitioned from darkness to the emergence of stars marks a critical shift known as Cosmic ...

On his first trip to the Grand Canyon Star Party, Dave Eicher joins thousands for a week of lectures, observing, and cosmic ...

Chile's ALMA observatory, which houses some of the world's most powerful telescopes, has captured its most detailed images to ...

Two studies fill in gaps about the cosmos’s ordinary matter. One maps it all, even the “missing matter.” The other details one of its hiding spots.

More than a decade in the making, the Vera Rubin Observatory finally released its first image as its begins its ...

A cataclysmic variable star was found as part of a project using two telescopes from opposite sides of the world.