When science organizations in the United States, Europe, and Japan dreamed up a new, ultra-powerful millimeter and submillimeter space observatory in the 1990s, they knew they couldn't just build it ...

Chile is a hotspot for telescopes peering up into deep space to study structures like stars, black holes, dark matter and galaxies. In the high-altitude desert of northern Chile sits the Atacama Large ...

Hundreds of parties were held all around the world today as astronomers gathered to watch an event streamed live from Washington, D.C. It was the unveiling of some new pictures of our universe. The ...

Carpenter said his observatory's operations have been on hold since March 18. ALMA is just one of an array of observatories in Chile's arid north that comprise more than half of humanity's ...

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Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile have discovered "signs of a ‘hot spot’ ...

The Atacama Desert of Chile is largely considered the driest place on Earth, but recently saw the moon-like landscape blanketed in snow. Jared Verdi via Unsplash Nestled between the Andes Mountains ...

This image, taken with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), shows the molecular gas content of two galaxies involved in a cosmic collision. The one on the right hosts a quasar –– a ...