ALMA Discovers Trio of Infant Planets around Newborn Star
Two independent teams of astronomers have used ALMA to uncover convincing evidence that three young planets are in orbit...
ALMA and VLT Find Too Many Massive Stars in Starburst Galaxies, Near and Far
Astronomers using ALMA and the VLT have discovered that both starburst galaxies in the early Universe and a star-forming...
A Crowded Neighbourhood
Glowing brightly about 160 000 light-years away, the Tarantula Nebula is the most spectacular feature of the Large Magellanic...
Mars Helicopter to Fly on NASA's Next Red Planet Rover Mission
The Mars Helicopter, a small, autonomous rotorcraft, will travel with NASA's Mars 2020 rover, currently...
Science Launching to Space Station Looks Forward and Back
The Cold Atom Lab (CAL) is a new facility that will create a spot ten billion times colder than the vacuum of space, and...
ALMA and VLT Find Evidence for Stars Forming Just 250 Million Years After Big Bang
Astronomers have used observations from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and ESO’s Very Large...
A micro-thermometer to record tiny temperature changes
(a) Video still showing a tightly focused laser beam making contact with the thermocouple. (b) Graph showing the thermocouple's response...
Deeper understanding of quantum chaos may be the key to quantum computers
Quantum systems can exist in many possible states, here illustrated by groups of spins, each pointing along a certain direction....
