Spotlight on Astronomy

Three Cornell researchers have been selected to be part of the mission to Europa.

“Prophecy is a lost art.”

Carl Sagan longed to explore other worlds, to learn if they, too, contain life.

Astronomers have made the first direct observations of cosmic building-block dust resulting from an ancient supernova.

"Ours is the first concrete blueprint of life not as we know it."

The John Philip Award for Excellence in Young Scientists helps promising young scientists to accelerate their careers.

Jaclyn Bradli from Rutgers University, has won a Chambliss Student Poster Award at the 225th meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) in Seattle, Washington in January 2015.

Finding planets beyond our own capable of harboring life has become the mission of a Cornell University Professor Lisa Kaltenegger and a team she is constructing.

Jason Hofgartner, a Cornell Astronomy graduate student, won an Outstanding Student Paper Award for his presentation at the American Geophysical Union's fall meeting in San Francisco on December 18th, 2014.