
Student Spotlight: Derek Berman
Derek Berman, doctoral student in geological sciences, studies the geophysical environment of Mars’ Jezero crater.
Read moreThe Carl Sagan Institute (CSI) was founded to find life in the universe. Based on the pioneering work of Carl Sagan at Cornell, our interdisciplinary team is developing the forensic toolkit to find life in the universe, inside the Solar System and outside of it, on planets and moons orbiting other stars.
Derek Berman, doctoral student in geological sciences, studies the geophysical environment of Mars’ Jezero crater.
Read moreTelescopes could better detect potential chemical signatures of life in the atmosphere of an Earth-like exoplanet more closely resembling the age the dinosaurs inhabited than the one we know today, Cornell astronomers find.
Read moreThirty years ago, astronomer Carl Sagan convinced NASA to turn a passing space probe’s instruments on Earth to look for life — with results that still reverberate today.
Read moreAn interdisciplinary group of researchers has identified a missing aspect of Darwin's theory that applies to essentially everything.
Read moreThe quartz crystals are only about 10 nanometers across (one-millionth of one centimeter), so small that 10,000 could fit side-by-side across a human hair.
Read moreThe Brinson Prize supports postdoctoral scholars in carrying out novel research in observational cosmology.
Read moreAstronomers using data from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have identified carbon dioxide on the icy surface of Europa – one of a handful of worlds in our solar system that could potentially harbor conditions suitable for life.
Read moreA&S Astronomy and Cornell Center for Astrophysical and Planetary Science (C-CAPS) faculty are key to “Thriving in Space,” released Sept. 12.
Read moreThe Carl Sagan Institute was founded in 2015 at Cornell University to find life in the universe and explore other worlds – how they form, evolve and if they could harbor life both inside and outside of our own Solar System.