[3] At the astrophysics center of the University of Liège, Yaël Nazé engages in research to create new observation satellites and "analyses data from different international observatories.

The project confirmed "the winds from massive stars are not simply a uniform breeze,..., but also reveal hundreds of thousands of individual hot and cool pieces.

"[5] Collaborating with You-Hua Chu, she also identified wind-blown bubbles in the Magellanic Clouds[6] and also characterized ultra-hot nebulae ionized by extreme Wolf-Rayet stars[7].

[3] In her role as a professor at the University of Liège, Nazé has taught general physics and astronomy courses, as well as advanced astrophysics such as spectroscopy and astrobiology.

"[1] In 2012, Nazé was awarded the Prize for Excellence in Public Engagement with Planetary Science by the Europlanet Society for her "outreach activities...in attracting hard to reach audiences", which includes "children, artists and elderly people.

"[13] To further the general public's engagement with information about the cosmos, Yaël Nazé, "together with a colleague, pioneered a service for journalists giving daily summaries of space news translated into French."

To interest children in astronomy, "[s]he designed a permanent exhibition on the Solar System for the pediatric ward of the Bruyères Hospital in Belgium[13] as well as booklets, hands-on activities, and serious games published by the science diffusion office of the university of Liège (Réjouisciences).

In addition to authoring and co-authoring over 180 academic papers in refereed journals[14], Yaël Nazé has written 12 general interest books (as of March 2023) "that brilliantly demonstrate the role of astronomy in our history and culture.

[18] In 2023 in response to NASA scientists mapping the colors of the images from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) "to different pitches of sound", Yaël Nazé wrote an article about "the long love story between music and astronomy."