For over 50 years, Cornell has made astronomical contributions in the ongoing efforts to explore and understand the mysterious inner workings of Earth’s rust-colored neighbor, Mars. In honor of these ...

When astronauts set foot on Mars, it will be one of humanity’s greatest milestones. These first steps will be the result of decades of research, engineering, and imagination coming together, marking ...

A new Mars rover is scheduled to rendezvous with the red planet in 2020 as part of a series of missions un-climatically called Mars 2020. The 2020 Mars rover is a better equipped twin of the Curiosity ...

A resilient fungus survived Mars-like tests, raising concerns that some microbes could hitch a ride on future missions.

NASA’s Curiosity rover has detected a diverse suite of organic molecules, including some linked to life’s building blocks, preserved for billions of years in ancient Martian rocks. In parallel, new ...