Debra Fischer is one of five faculty members honored with prizes for exceptional teaching.
Yale College Dean Marvin Chun said, “Debra Fischer, professor of astronomy, you...
Astronomers have assembled a mosaic of nearly 7,500 images of one part of the sky, creating the largest and most comprehensive history book of the universe.
The Hubble Legacy...
Priyamvada Natarajan has perfected her moonwalk.
After years of envisioning the inner workings of quasars and mapping out the likelihood of dark matter, Natarajan has cast...
A Yale-led team of researchers is doubling down on its earlier finding of a galaxy with almost no dark matter.
In 2018, the researchers published their original study about...
Astronomers at Yale and Caltech say that ‘Oumuamua, the much-discussed interstellar space rock, is best viewed as a comet with odd properties — and not an alien probe, as has...
Debra Fischer, newly named as the Eugene Higgins Professor of Astronomy, is a leading exoplanet researcher.
Fischer has discovered hundreds of exoplanets, celestial bodies...
For almost a decade, astronomers have tried to explain why so many pairs of planets outside our solar system have an odd configuration — their orbits seem to have been pushed...
