October 2021 News

Searching for Earth 2.0? Zoom in on a star

Tue, 10/26/2021
Astronomers searching for Earth-like planets in other solar systems have made a breakthrough by taking a closer look at the surface of stars. A new technique developed by an...

Ph.D. Candidate Aritra Ghosh receives 2021 Dean’s Emerging Scholars Research Awards

Fri, 10/22/2021
Yale Astronomy Ph.D. Candidate, Aritra Ghosh, has been selected to receive one of ten competitive Dean’s Emerging Scholars Research Awards. This award is given out each year...

Debra Fischer to lead NSF’s Division of Astronomical Sciences

Fri, 10/01/2021
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has named Debra Fischer, the Eugene Higgins Professor of Astronomy in Yale’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences, director of its Division of...