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...
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...
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...
A new study led by Yale University astronomers tells the story of a galaxy that ran out of gas.
It’s a story as old as the universe itself: A galaxy is born, brimming with...
