The discovery, reported in two separate studies, was made possible thanks to the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), in which the European Southern Observatory (ESO) is a partner.

The recent detection of oxygen in the most distant known galaxy is making astronomers rethink how quickly galaxies formed after the Big Bang. Handout of an artist’s impression of Jades-GS-z14-0 ...

Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) scientists of the Leiden Observatory (the Netherlands) looked at 73 protoplanetary disks in the Lupus region. They found that many ...

ALMA has revealed evidence of a new type of slim, filamentary structure that drives cycles of depletion and replenishment. At ...

Part of the challenge when it comes to researching the existence of alien life is knowing where to look. Until relatively recently, the focus for Nasa’s search for life was Mars, but that began to ...

Researchers have zoomed in on the area surrounding the supermassive black hole lurking at the center of our galaxy, and made ...

When astronomers followed up on Webb’s initial observations with the ALMA Observatory in Chile, they were stunned to find the presence of oxygen and heavy metals. Their presence suggests ...

“I was really surprised by this clear detection of oxygen in JADES-GS-z14-0,” said Gergö Popping, a European Southern Observatory astronomer at the European ALMA Regional Centre, in a statemen ...

The two studies, one led by the Netherland’s Leiden Observatory and the other by the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa, were based on results from the Alma telescope (Atacama Large Millimetre ...