The Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA) in the Chilean Andes is one of the most powerful radio telescope ...

"A bit like dinosaurs on Earth — they were enormous and primitive. And they had short lives, living for just a quarter of a ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope report that a powerful gamma-ray burst detected in March may have been ...

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope in Chile has released its final batch of data after 15 years — and it proves that the Hubble ...

Astronomers are closing in on a result so statistically secure that, in their language, it borders on certainty: a 99.9999999 ...

A team of astronomers using a variety of ground and space-based telescopes including the W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea, ...

In the dense environment of the early universe, dark matter particles would collide with, and annihilate, each other, ...

By studying faint distortions in galaxy shapes across a vast region of sky, scientists probed the hidden structure of the universe. In the standard picture of the universe, nearly everything is hidden ...

A virtual event, "Astronomy Unlocked: How to Choose Your Best Telescope," is scheduled for November 20, 2025, at 9:00 am EST, designed to provide a comprehensive guide to selecting astronomical ...

Molecules containing noble gases shouldn’t exist. By definition, these chemical elements — helium, neon, argon, krypton, xenon and radon — are the party poopers of the periodic table, huddling in the ...

In a field dominated by men and scarce resources, astrophysicist Manisha Dwa has carved out a path of her own. She is working to transform astronomy education in Nepal, empowering students and pushing ...

In a glimpse of the early universe, astronomers have observed a galaxy as it appeared just 800 million years after the Big ...