The Atacama Larger Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has been used to study the formation of planets in a distant solar system, with the results likely to further our understanding of the process.

A new Chandra X-ray Observatory image of M82 shows the result of star formation on overdrive. M82, also known as the Cigar Galaxy, is located about 12 million light-years from Earth and is the nearest ...

Researchers have for the first time made high-resolution images of the earliest stages of bone formation. They used the world's most advanced electron microscope to make three-dimensional images of ...

The fruits of the Strategic Explorations of Exoplanets and Disks with Subaru (SEEDS) project, led by Motohide Tamura from the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ), are accumulating.

Brain metastasis frequently occurs in individuals with cancer and is often fatal. We used multiphoton laser scanning microscopy to image the single steps of metastasis formation in real time. Thus, it ...

This composite image shows the formation of polydopamine coatings. Top to bottom: The molecular structure of intermediates in polydopamine-formation; the clay-mineral nanotubes change color during the ...