Spotlight on Astronomy

A paper coauthored by Alex Hayes and Jonathan Lunine, has won the "2012 Publication Award for Outstanding Research Paper in an Externally Refereed Publication" by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL).

A Cornell astronomer has been chosen to play a key role in a mission to better understand how the universe has been expanding and of what it is made.

Chunks of hydrocarbon ice may float atop the lakes and seas of Saturn's huge moon Titan, a new study reveals.

I'm Leo Stein, and I'm very happy to have joined the Astronomy Department at Cornell this Fall. I will be a NASA Einstein postdoctoral fellow for three years here at Cornell. Before coming to Cornell, I was a graduate student in astrophysics at MIT (working with Scott Hughes, a Cornell alumnus) and received my Ph.D. in 2012.

In Fall 2012, Dominik Riechers joined the department as its newest faculty member. He is an observational astronomer with wide interest in galaxies and galaxy evolution.

Professor Jonathan Lunine has been tapped to help decide whether, when and why Americans will next fly in outer space.

Theoretical physicists at Cornell may have found a new way to explain the formation of novae, stars that suddenly become very bright then quickly fade.

Yervant Terzian has won the Armenian State Award - Movses Khorenatsi Medal, the highest for scientists.

NASA's Curiosity rover took its first test stroll Wednesday Aug. 22, 2012, and beamed back pictures of its accomplishment in the form of track marks in the Martian soil.