Natarajan has also been honored with a 2025 Suffrage Science Award from the MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences in the UK for her pioneering contributions to astrophysics.

A Yale-led research group has discovered “Bullseye,” a galaxy with nine rings that may help astronomers better understand galaxy evolution and dark matter.

Yale’s Priyamvada Natarajan has won a prestigious astrophysics prize for her seminal work on the unseen world of black holes.

An international research team, including Yale’s Pieter van Dokkum, has discovered a trio of supermassive “Red Monster” galaxies in the early universe.

Astrophysicist Marla Geha’s new Yale Online course about rocket science is, ahem, skyrocketing in popularity.

In an interview, Yale astronomer Earl Bellinger discusses the interiors of stars and the music they make.

Akiko Iwasaki and Priyamvada Natarajan are part of 2024’s Time 100, a list that includes leaders of government, the arts, athletics, science, and industry.

If confirmed as a galaxy, the system would be the faintest galaxy ever discovered — and may suggest that many others remain to be discovered.

From neutrinos to maps of the entire universe, Faculty of Arts and Sciences physicists and cosmologists are exploring the unseen in a quest to understand the most far-reaching scientific mysteries.

Marla Geha, professor of astronomy, reminds us that orbiting garbage is starting to clog up Earth’s satellite lanes like a halo of space waste.