Over 1500 people gathered in Farnham Gardens in front of the Leitner Family Observatory and Planetarium on Monday, August 21, 2017 to watch the somewhat rare event of a...
Sarah Millholland, GRD ‘22 and astronomy professor Greg Laughlin have identified 60 potential new “hot Jupiters” — highly irradiated worlds that glow like coals on a...
The EXtreme PREcision Spectrograph (EXPRES), designed and built at Yale, will be the first spectrograph with the precision to detect analogs of our Earth around nearby stars...
A current Yale postdoctoral associate and a Yale College alumna have each been awarded the inaugural 2016 International Astronomical Union (IAU) PhD Prize for the following...
After a rigorous application process, the Yale Department of Astronomy is pleased to announce that the Dorrit Hoffleit Undergraduate Research Scholarship has been awarded to...
Fabio Pacucci, Yale postdoctoral associate, has been awarded the Livio Gratton prize for the best PhD thesis in astronomy from an Italian institution for his dissertation The...
Angelo Ricarte, GRD ‘19, has been awarded the 2017 NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship (NESSF) in Astrophysics Research for his PhD thesis The Assembly of Ultra-Massive...
