Spotlight on Astronomy

“One of the most important outcomes of the last two decades of solar system exploration is the identification of four bodies in our solar system that appear capable of harboring life.”

Saturn's active moon Enceladus is famous for its icy geysers that erupt across the satellite's south polar region.

Cornell University researchers have learned that a global ocean lies beneath the moon’s thick icy crust.

October 2015 issue of Astronomy magazine features "Secrets from Titan's seas", written by Alexander G. Hayes.

Cornell’s Center for Radiophysics and Space Research has a new name.

A mile-long asteroid that raced past Earth July 25 at about 45,000 miles per hour was imaged by radar telescopes so that astronomers like Cornell’s Sean Marshall could discern its precise orbit and physical shape.

The submillimeter group is returning to APEX in Northern Chile with their custom made spectrometer, ZEUS-2, for July-August.

“Since this type of ‘compact’ binary is very common, it had been very puzzling that no planets had been detected.”