Spotlight on Astronomy

New research from Cornell University’s Institute for Pale Blue Dots shows where – and when – infant Earths are most likely to be found.

Astronomers haven’t been able to visually observe black holes because nothing can escape from them, not even light or radiation.

Lead author Dominik Riechers and an international team of researchers gazed back over 12.5 billion years to find bustling galaxies creating stars at a breakneck rate.

Radwan Tajeddine has inferred that this small moon’s icy surface cloaks either a rugby ball-shaped rocky core or a sloshing sub-surface ocean.

Jonathan Lunine will be awarded the prestigious Jean-Dominique Cassini Medal.

Astronomers have discovered an unusual carbon-based molecule contained within a giant gas cloud in interstellar space.

These large, gaseous exoplanets (planets outside our solar system) can make their suns wobble after they wend their way through their own solar systems to snuggle up against their suns, according to new Cornell research published in Science, Sept. 12.

Cornell is the only institution contributing two co-investigators to the Mastcam-Z team.

NASA's Opportunity Mars rover now holds the off-Earth roving distance record after accruing 25 miles (40 kilometers) of driving.