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ALMA Reveals Stunning Details of Infant Galaxies in the Early Universe

July 1, 2025 at 11:00 am | News Release

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

Protecting the Cosmos: NSF NRAO Leads Critical Spectrum Studies to Safeguard Radio Astronomy

June 24, 2025 at 8:00 am | News Release

The U.S. National Science Foundation National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NSF NRAO) has received funding to expand its study of…

Largest Oort Cloud Comet Ever Observed Reveals Its Secrets with ALMA’s Powerful Gaze

June 16, 2025 at 9:46 pm | News Release

A team of astronomers has made a groundbreaking discovery by detecting molecular activity in comet C/2014 UN271 (Bernardinelli-Bernstein)—the largest…

Unusual stellar nurseries near our galaxy’s center puzzle scientists

June 13, 2025 at 11:00 am | News Release

New research led by Dr. James De Buizer at the SETI Institute and Dr. Wanggi Lim at IPAC at Caltech revealed surprising results about the rate at which high-mass stars form in the galactic center of the Milky Way.

ALMA Reveals Lives of Planet-Forming Disks

June 13, 2025 at 9:00 am | News Release

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

From Stardust to Stone: Windswept Grains Hold Clues to Planet’s Beginnings

June 12, 2025 at 9:00 am | News Release

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

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