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Nicholas Read
April 30, 2020
Yale physicist Nicholas Read has been elected a fellow of the Royal Society, one of the most highly regarded honors bestowed upon scientists in the United Kingdom and select...
The planet MASCARA-2 b, a Jupiter-like gas giant roughly 2.68 quadrillion miles from Earth (Illustration by Sam Cabot)
April 22, 2020
Yale technology is giving astronomers a closer look at the atmosphere of a distant planet where it’s so hot the air contains vaporized metals. The planet, MASCARA-2 b, is 140...
March 11, 2020
Brooke Russell is all about big ideas. Since successfully defending her graduate thesis in December — and becoming the first African-American woman to earn a Yale Ph.D. in...
March 5, 2020
The American Astronomical Society (AAS) has named a trio of Yale astronomers among its inaugural class of fellows. Sarbani Basu, professor and chair of the Department of...
February 10, 2020
Yale University said Feb. 10 that its Department of Geology & Geophysics will change its name to the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences to better reflect the...
February 4, 2020
Ambre Dromgoole and Davis Butner are hitting their scholarly stride in the sweet spot between art and science. Their projects are quite different from each other. Dromgoole...
November 26, 2019
Yale astronomers have taken a new, close-up image of the interstellar comet 2l/Borisov. 2l/Borisov, first spotted this summer, continues to draw nearer to Earth and will...