Science March 23, 2020

Star Formation Project Maps Nearby Interstellar Clouds

Astronomers have captured new, detailed maps of three nearby interstellar gas clouds containing regions of ongoing high-mass star formation.

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Science March 9, 2020

Safety Zone Saves Giant Moons from Fatal Plunge

Numerical simulations showed that the temperature gradient in the disk of gas around a young gas giant planet could play a critical role in the development of a satellite system dominated by a single large moon, similar to Titan around Saturn.

Science March 5, 2020

ALMA Spots Metamorphosing Aged Star

An international team of astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) captured the very moment when an old star first starts to alter its environment.

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Science February 14, 2020

Galactic Cosmic Rays Affect Titan’s Atmosphere

Planetary scientists using ALMA revealed the secrets of the atmosphere of Titan.

Science February 5, 2020

Artificial Intelligence tool developed to predict the structure of the Universe

A team of researchers used the world’s fastest astrophysical simulation supercomputers ATERUI and ATERUI II to develop the Dark Emulator.

Science January 17, 2020

Here and Gone: Outbound Comets are Likely of Alien Origin

Astronomers at the NAOJ have analyzed the paths of two objects heading out of the Solar System forever and determined that they also most likely originated from outside of the Solar System.

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Science January 15, 2020

Active Asteroid Unveils Fireball Identity

At around 1 a.m. local standard time on April 29, 2017, a fireball flew over Kyoto, Japan.

Science January 9, 2020

Stellar Heavy Metals can Trace History of Galaxies

Astronomers have cataloged signs of 9 heavy metals in the infrared light from supergiant and giant stars.

Science December 23, 2019

Massive Gas Disk Raises Questions about Planet Formation Theory

Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) found a young star surrounded by an astonishing mass of gas.

Science December 19, 2019

The ‘cores’ of massive galaxies had already formed 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang

A distant galaxy more massive than our Milky Way—with more than a trillion stars—has revealed that the ‘cores’ of massive galaxies in the Universe had formed already 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang, about 1 billion years earlier than previous measurements revealed.