Using the Chile-based ALMA telescope, the researchers examined the dynamics and chemistry of a central region.

The center of the Milky Way is an extreme place. In addition to housing our galaxy's supermassive black hole, it also ...

When you gaze up at the night sky, you’re looking back in time. Light from the stars takes years, sometimes millennia, to ...

A telescope in Chile has revealed the swirling splendor of star-forming gases at the heart of our Milky Way galaxy.

An international team of astronomers has employed the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to investigate molecular gas in a nearby galaxy known as NGC 1387. Results of the ...

Astronomers have captured the central region of our Milky Way in a striking new image, unveiling a complex network of filaments of cosmic gas in unprecedented detail. Obtained with the Atacama Large ...

A newly discovered galaxy with glowing star-filled "tentacles" is rewriting parts of cosmic history.

A rare jellyfish galaxy discovered by JWST is offering clues about how galaxies died in the early universe.

A newly discovered jellyfish galaxy, seen as it existed 8.5 billion years ago, is challenging assumptions about conditions in the early universe. Astrophysicists at the University of Waterloo have ide ...