January 2017 News

Songhu Wang says the field of astronomy is driven by curiosity about whether humans are alone in the universe and about how our planetary system was created.

Yale’s Songhu Wang to study exoplanets as one of four inaugural 51 Pegasi b Fellows

January 25, 2017

The Heising-Simons Foundation announced the inaugural class of 51 Pegasi b Fellows, named for the first exoplanet discovered orbiting a Sun-like star. Songhu Wang, a...

Artist's concept of the Psyche spacecraft, which will conduct a direct exploration of an asteroid thought to be a stripped planetary core. (Image by SSL/ASU/P. Rubin/NASA/JPL-Caltech)

New NASA mission to visit a metal asteroid

January 17, 2017

NASA recently announced a pair of new space missions to explore questions about the earliest stages of our solar system. One of the missions, Psyche, will send an unmanned...