Chile's Atacama Desert May Be Famous for the 'Giant' Geoglyph, but the U.S. Uses It as a 'Fast Fashion Graveyard' The Atacama Desert has been an enigma for experts and enthusiasts worldwide. The ...

Astronomers find strange, tornado-like filaments of gas rotating around the Milky Way's supermassive black hole, revealing ...

Using the powerful Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and additional data from the Atacama Pathfinder ...

The black hole examined by the team is no small cosmic object. It is more than a billion times the mass of our Sun. Despite ...

Scientists have spotted a defiant galaxy. Located nearly 1 billion light-years from Earth, the galaxy 2MASX J23453268−0449256 ...

Scientists have discovered a star-smothering black hole energy jet tearing through a galaxy similar to the Milky Way.

Many protoplanetary disks in which new planets are formed are much smaller than thought. Using the Atacama Large ...

The CMZ is a region of clouds rich in dust and molecular gas that roils around the galactic nucleus. It measures up to 2,000 ...

A terrifying glimpse at one potential fate of our Milky Way galaxy has come to light thanks to the discovery of a cosmic ...

The spiral galaxy 2MASX J23453268−0449256 is located nearly 1 billion light-years away from Earth, and measures about three ...

Astrophysicists have teased a hellish potential future in which life on Earth is extinguished by deadly radiation from the ...