Observatories

Exoplanets, Planets, Robotic Spaceflight, Solar System

ALMA pinpoints Pluto to help guide NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft

Exotic Objects, Stars

The Very Large Telescope clears up dusty mystery

Exoplanets, Planets

First light for SPHERE exoplanet imager

Exoplanets, Planets

Length of exoplanet’s day measured for first time

Science

Web Extra: Explore ALMA with the ALMA Explorer

Cosmology

BOSS makes the most precise measurement yet of the universe’s expansion

Cosmology, Milky Way

Fermi data tantalize with new clues to dark matter

Solar System

Asteroid Chariklo found to have two rings

Solar System, Stars

ALMA sees icy wreckage in nearby solar system

Exotic Objects

With a deadly embrace, “spidery” pulsars consume their mates

Stars

Starless cloud cores reveal why some stars are bigger than others

Deep-Sky Objects

ALMA reveals ghostly shape of coldest place in the universe