A Yale-led team of researchers is doubling down on its earlier finding of a galaxy with almost no dark matter.
In 2018, the researchers published their original study about galaxy NGC 1052-DF2 — DF2 for short — the first known galaxy to contain little or...
For her pioneering work in computer science, Grace Murray Hopper ’30 M.A., ’34 Ph.D. has been dubbed the “queen of code” by her biographers. Yet, beneath that crown was the brain of a mathematician, according to an article in Notices of the American...
Astronomers at Yale and Caltech say that ‘Oumuamua, the much-discussed interstellar space rock, is best viewed as a comet with odd properties — and not an alien probe, as has been suggested.
‘Oumuamua is the first macroscopic object of clear interstellar...
A group of international experts has developed a much-needed framework to significantly improve the monitoring of status and trends of species worldwide. This finding comes after a multi-year collaboration under the auspices of the Group on Earth...
Debra Fischer and Pericles Lewis were appointed to endowed professorships.
Fischer, named as the Eugene Higgins Professor of Astronomy, is a leading exoplanet researcher. Read Fischer’s announcement.
Lewis, appointed the Douglas Tracy Smith Professor of...
Yale researchers have shown that mutations of a gene associated with autism, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and epilepsy cause some of the same structural and behavioral abnormalities that characterize those neurodevelopmental disorders, they report...