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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...