The ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array) radio telescope, located in theChilean Andes, has long been a key tool for astronomers seeking to understand the universe’s most distant and ...

Before its construction is even completed, the new telescope ALMA — the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array — is embarking on an upgrade that will help astronomers investigate the earliest ...

The Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA) in the Chilean Andes is one of the most powerful radio telescope facilities in the world. Researchers use it to study dark and distant regions ...

Telescopes orbiting Earth can peer billions of light-years into space to observe incredible phenomena across the cosmos.

Newswise — Astronomers using the U.S. National Science Foundation National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NSF NRAO) instruments, the U.S. National Science Foundation Very Large Array (NSF VLA) and the ...

Star Power In the Atacama Desert of northern Chile’s Andes, on the 16,500-foot-high Chajnantor Plateau, astronomers are getting ready to peer at the origins of the universe, and investigate phenomena ...

You may have heard the phrase "we are made of star-stuff." This statement by the astronomer Carl Sagan refers to the fact that elements heavier than hydrogen and helium were forged in the centers of ...