Astronomers have turned the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) into a time machine to peer back in cosmic ...

This unprecedented view of the Bullet Cluster provided by the James Webb Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory ...

Bechtol and his fellow scientists hope they can learn more about the universe than all of scientific progress has allowed in ...

Astronomers have used the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to peer into the early universe and uncover the ...

Planetariums were a hit with the public. Within decades, they had spread around the world – the first planetarium in the ...

A team led by the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics discovered the most distant known fossil galaxy — a relic of ...

Images of the cosmos, such as the James Webb Space Telescope’s deep space snapshot, make space look chock-full of stuff. In ...

Galaxies, including the Milky Way, grow from thick, turbulent disks into layered structures. JWST’s images show this process ...

Scientists think they found evidence of weird ancient stars called "dark stars" that are powered by dark matter instead of ...

More information: R. Herrera-Camus et al, The ALMA-CRISTAL survey: Gas, dust, and stars in star-forming galaxies when the Universe was ∼1 Gyr old, Astronomy & Astrophysics (2025).

Scientists are still trying to understand how galaxies formed and evolved from primordial gas clouds into the organized ...

By studying what makes the Milky Way unique, astronomers are hoping to understand our galaxy’s past and unravel the mystery ...