atacama large millimeter array

When it comes to science, brawn can be brilliant.

Earth's biggest astronomy machine, inaugurated last week, will see farther into the past than ever before.

The next 30 years of observations will revolutionize astronomy.

ALMA is finally being unwrapped, and your telescope correspondent is going to Chile to see it.

Observations of distant gassy discs show how giant gas planets form along with their stars.

The protostar and its protoplanetary disk are still in the process of being born.

The sweet building block of life

The world’s largest astronomical facility has opened its eyes, turning nearly two dozen antennae toward the heavens to study the...