The ALMA radio telescope array in the Atacama Desert temporarily halted operations after a rare snowfall blanketed the base ...

Astronomers first identified these minerals using the now-three-year-old James Webb Space Telescope. To see where exactly the ...

An international research team has witnessed the earliest moments to date of planets beginning to form around a star beyond ...

Last week, astronomers stationed at the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) Observatory in northern Chile ...

For the first time in Kazakhstan’s scientific history, a high-precision robotic telescope has been installed and launched in ...

While astronomers have previously seen young discs that contain newborn, massive, Jupiter-like planets, McClure says, “we’ve always known that the first solid parts of planets, or planetesimals, must ...

Deep in Chile’s Atacama Desert, scientists studied a green crystal called atacamite—and discovered it can cool itself ...

SQM’s new state partnership faces growing scrutiny amid rising global competition for one of the world’s most critical ...

Researchers have discovered why atacamite, a rare mineral found in Chile, spontaneously cools down when exposed to a magnetic ...

For the first time, international researchers have pinpointed the moment when planets began to form around a star beyond the ...

International researchers have, for the first time, pinpointed the moment when planets began to form around a star beyond the Sun. Using the ALMA telescope, in which the European Southern Observatory ...