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A still image from the “Lunatick” a virtual reality experience (Courtesy of Antony Gormley Studio and Acute Art)

Strolling on the lunar surface — with some help from a Yale professor

Wed, 04/03/2019
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...

New studies confirm existence of galaxies with almost no dark matter

Fri, 03/29/2019
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...

A new theory for ‘Oumuamua: It’s a comet that rocks

Tue, 03/12/2019
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 designated the Eugene Higgins Professor of Astronomy

Thu, 03/07/2019
Debra Fischer, newly named as the Eugene Higgins Professor of Astronomy, is a leading exoplanet researcher. Fischer has discovered hundreds of exoplanets, celestial bodies...

The case of the over-tilting exoplanets

Mon, 03/04/2019
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...

When Black Holes Burp, Stars Sense It - Science Friday Podcast

Fri, 02/22/2019
When Einstein published his general theory of relativity in 1915, he didn’t have any evidence his idea was true. The math worked out, yes, and he had a few examples he could...

A Yale astrophysicist’s prediction comes to pass — 20 years later

Mon, 02/04/2019
The heavens delivered a bit of scientific vindication to Yale professor of astronomy and physics Priyamvada Natarajan recently, when her 20-year-old theory about winds from...