Preview data from the recently completed NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile point to a wave of discoveries that may complete the census of the Milky Way’s neighboring...
A new study from a Yale-led research team suggests that some of the most interesting black holes in the universe are the ones that have “wandered” away.
If you want to...
Astronomers have captured an unprecedented image of a cosmic recycling project in progress — fragments of a dying star being busted up, stripped, and absorbed into...
Astronomers have followed a faint, cosmic trail of gas to a third galaxy that has no dark matter.
In a new study in The Astrophysical Journal, a team of Yale astronomers...
The new telescope, under construction in Chile, may help astronomers observe the “web” of dark matter and gas connecting galaxies.
Make way for MOTHRA, the world’s largest...
Yale junior Donglin Wu leads a new study showing that some of the biggest stars in the universe shed some of the smallest dust particles.
It’s fitting that Yale junior...
Congratulations to Ray Jayawardhana ’94—one of Yale’s standout astronomy and physics majors of the early 1990s who has been named the 10th president of the California...
