Thanks to some astrophysical sleuthing, researchers have pinpointed an early galactic merger that helped shape the Milky Way.
The merger — a collision, actually — happened 11...
Yale astronomers Pieter van Dokkum, Cheng-Han Hsieh, Shany Danieli, and Gregory Laughlin have taken a new, close-up image of the interstellar comet 2l/Borisov.
2l/Borisov,...
The Yale Astronomy Department officially recognized undergraduate majors in Astronomy and Astrophysics in its first annual hoodie ceremony on Friday, November 22, 2019. ...
The Universities Space Research Association (USRA) announced the winners of the prestigious annual Distinguished Undergraduate Awards to recognize and develop promising...
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Some relationships are written in the stars. That’s definitely the case for supermassive black holes and their host galaxies, according to a new study from Yale University....
Gregory Laughlin and Malena Rice weren’t exactly surprised a few weeks ago when they learned that a second interstellar object had made its way into our solar system.
The...
