An international research team led by Dr. Zhang Suinan from the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory of the Chinese Academy of ...

These icy bodies contain organic molecules — and don’t fall into any known category of celestial object we’ve seen before.

Scientists have gotten the best-ever view of 'space tornadoes' howling near the Milky Way's black hole. The cosmic twisters could play an important role in distributing organic molecules throughout ...

"Could our galaxy one day experience similar high-energy phenomena that will have serious consequences for the survival of precious life in it?" ...

ALMA has revealed evidence of a new type of slim, filamentary structure that drives cycles of depletion and replenishment. At the heart of our galaxy, in the turbulent region surrounding the ...

Related: Facts about Sagittarius A*, the Milky Way's supermassive black hole The researchers used ALMA to track molecules, using them as "tracers" for various processes happening in the CMZ's ...

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

Slim filaments seen in the CMZ of the Milky Way around the supermassive black hole Sgr A* by the ALMA telescope. | Credit: Yang et al. Astronomers don't currently know for sure how these thin ...