News

October 28, 2019
The dramatic transformation of Science Hill takes center stage at a campus celebration on Tuesday, Oct. 29. The new Yale Science Building (YSB), 225 Prospect St., is set for...
The CHIME telescope has four cylindrical reflector dishes that cover an area equal to two football fields.
January 9, 2019
Assistant professor of physics Laura Newburgh is part of a Canadian-led experiment that has detected the second-known example of a repeating fast radio burst (FRB)...
April 7, 2018
Yale Department of Astronomy faculty and students are turning their telescopes to the “Path of Totality” for the total solar eclipse on Aug. 21. On that morning and afternoon...
April 6, 2018
Yale University, the University of Bridgeport (UB), and Housatonic Community College (HCC) will celebrate the culmination of the Helmsley Postdoctoral Teaching Scholars...
March 28, 2018
A Yale-led research team has discovered a galaxy that contains no dark matter — a finding that confirms the possibility of dark matter as a separate material elsewhere in the...
March 13, 2018
A new, ground-based spectrometer designed and built at Yale represents the most powerful step yet in the effort to identify Earth-sized planets in neighboring solar systems....
March 13, 2018
Astronomer and board game designer Dante Lauretta will investigate space exploration and board games in the Yale Quantum Institute’s fifth event in its series of nontechnical...