Not all families are the same. Some have many children; others just a few. In some cases, families live close together in their home town;

New ALMA observations reveal that the hunt for life beyond Earth is not as easy as some had hoped. Over the past decades, astronomers have

Do you recognize this image? If you are a regular visitor of the ALMA website, you may have seen similar photos before. Yes, this is

Here’s the story of the birth of a massive star. It all starts with a huge cloud of gas and dust. The cloud contracts under

Thirty years ago, astronomers saw a star exploding in a nearby galaxy. Now, using ALMA, they have imaged the huge cloud of dust that resulted

Our planet Earth orbits the Sun. And it’s not alone. Our solar system contains eight planets, many dozens of moons, and countless asteroids, icy ‘dwarf

Before cameras and photography existed, you would never know how you looked just after you were born. The only way would be to go to

Suppose there are eight trees in the street you live in. They’re all the same kind of tree, and they’re also the same size. Surely

The basic building blocks for life may already have been around when the universe was still young. Living things consist of organic molecules. Organic molecules

ALMA has discovered that young baby galaxies were already very well-behaved. The discovery is a big surprise to astronomers. Everyone believed that newborn galaxies would