The inaugural heads of Yale’s two new residential colleges have been announced by President Peter Salovey and Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway. Charles Bailyn, professor...
In its brief time gathering data this year, the Hitomi X-ray Observatory discovered something quite serene: the calm core in a massive cluster of galaxies.
Scientists from...
Yale astronomers conducted a first-of-its-kind survey of some of the largest and most massive galaxies in the universe — and the loose stars that tag along for the ride....
An intergalactic gas cloud is sometimes a dish best served cold.
In a new study to be published June 9 in the journal Nature, a Yale-led team of astronomers found a...
Professors C. Megan Urry and Frederick J. Sigworth have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in recognition of their distinguished and continuing...
Mapping the Heavens: The Radical Scientific Ideas That Reveal the Cosmos
Priyamvada Natarajan, professor of astronomy and of physics
(Yale University Press)
This book...
Even a super-Earth can fly too close to the sun, according to a new study.
An international team of astronomers has found a new category of planets beyond our solar system...
