Astronomers have discovered a galactic table for two — a pair of unusually close black holes that are feeding together after their respective galaxies collided.
The finding could have a profound impact on our understanding of later-stage galaxy mergers...
Yale astronomer Pieter van Dokkum today received the 2023 Jackson-Gwilt Medal from the UK-based Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) for his development of the Dragonfly Telephoto Array, an instrument that has achieved unprecedented success in the measurement...
Hawaii and Iceland are tourist hotspots — and it turns out they’re popular with geochemical travelers as well.
A new Yale study suggests that throughout Earth’s history, natural processes propelled measurable geochemical signals from deep inside Earth’s...
Yale astrophysicist Meg Urry is the inaugural winner of the Distinguished Career Award from the American Astronomical Society’s (AAS) High Energy Astrophysics Division.
Urry, the Israel Munson Professor of Physics and Astronomy in Yale’s Faculty of Arts...
Seven Yale faculty members have been named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society. It is Yale’s largest group of new AAAS fellows in a decade.
Overall, the new class of...
Marla Geha recently sent her “ASTR 160” students back to the drawing board for some universal truths.
While aimed at non-science majors, the lecture course, formally known as “Frontiers and Controversy in Astrophysics,” challenged students to examine some...