Graduate student Erica Nelson and her collaborators have discovered a window into the early, violent formation of the cores of the universe’s monster galaxies, obscured...
The universe’s oldest, brightest beacons may have gorged themselves in the dense, cold, gas flows of the early cosmos — creating a kind of energy drink for infant black holes...
Ivelina Momcheva, a Yale postdoctoral researcher, sifted through a maze of data, piecing together clues that allowed her and her colleagues to confirm the existence of a...
Yale University scientists are involved all of the major aspects of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, an initiative that spans four continents and includes 200 astronomers at...
Yale University astronomers, using a new type of telescope made by stitching together telephoto lenses, recently discovered seven celestial surprises while probing a nearby...
The Yale Astronomy Department has awarded the George Beckwith prize this year to Liang Yu, ‘14 B.S. The George Beckwith Prize was established in 1926 by Dr. Glover C....
Carbon-rich planets may be more common than previously thought, according to new research by Yale University astronomers, led by Yale doctoral candidate John Moriarty.
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