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February 23, 2017
Yale saluted its scientific legacy and looked ahead to a new era of research and discovery during a Feb. 21 ceremony to mark the demolition of J.W. Gibbs Laboratories on...
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...
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...
December 20, 2016
Yale researchers have found a data-driven way to detect distant planets and refine the search for worlds similar to Earth. The new approach, outlined in a study published Dec...
November 28, 2016
Johannes Ulf Lange (Astronomy) has been awarded a Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP) Graduate Fellowship. He is only the second winner from Yale to be chosen for...
October 26, 2016
John W. Harris, newly named as the D. Allan Bromley Professor of Physics, focuses his research on creating and understanding the behavior of matter that existed microseconds...
October 17, 2016
On Oct. 7, the Gruber Foundation and the Departments of Astronomy and Physics hosted the 2016 Gruber Cosmology Conference at the Yale School of Management. The one-day...