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10 stories from Planck Standard. Latest: October 8, 2026.
ALMA's COMPASS survey also found methanol masers around more than half of the young stars studied, hinting that complex organic chemistry starts earlier than thought.
Radio images of WISPIT 2b, a planet five times Jupiter's mass still pulling in gas 430 light-years away, show swirls that simulations predicted for decades but no one had seen next to a known planet.
Elias 2-24 b beat the previous record for the youngest known planet by more than 4 million years. It was found in decade-old Keck archive images, in exactly the gap in the star's disk that ALMA spotted a decade ago.
Landauer's principle says computing gets cheaper the colder it runs. Michael Garrett argues a computation-dominated civilization would dump its waste heat at 5 to 30 kelvin, in the far infrared and submillimeter, where no SETI survey has ever looked.
The first detailed molecular gas map of the colliding galaxy group shows that the regions with the most violent gas motion form stars least efficiently, even where there is plenty of raw material.
The star's inner atmosphere has grown lopsided since 2015, and the newly confirmed companion star may be steering where the convection cells sit.
ALMA resolved a magnetic field coiled around the gas streaming off a protostar 960 light-years away. It is a few thousandths of a gauss — weaker than a fridge magnet, and strong enough to shape a star.
A Manchester researcher dug into archived ALMA data and searched millimeter frequencies almost nobody has checked for alien signals. No technosignatures — but far more stars surveyed than anyone counted.
Five years of observations with Chile's ALMA telescope revealed a cone of hot gas carved around Sagittarius A*, the long-sought outflow from our galaxy's central supermassive black hole.
ALMA observations reveal the third known interstellar interloper formed around a warmer star; scientists have weeks left to study it before it fades.