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Metal machine with wheels on a rocky landscape — NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS NASA’s Perseverance rover exploring Jezero Crater

Astronomy

Precious samples from Mars have been collected. Now it’s up to Congress to get them back.

3/18/2024 CNN

Clues about our planet’s ability to support life might come from Mars – yet political storms that have hit Washington, DC, threaten to leave valuable samples stranded on Mars.

Astronomy, Carl Sagan Institute

Venus may hold the answers about life we’ve been looking for

9/15/2020 Washington Post

What Makes Us Human?

Interstellar Water

4/30/2019

This is an episode from the “What Makes Us Human?” podcast's fourth season, "What Does Water Mean for Us Humans?" from Cornell University’s College of Arts & Sciences, showcasing the newest thinking from across the disciplines about the relationship between humans and love. Featuring audio essays written and recorded by Cornell faculty, the series releases a new episode each Tuesday through the spring semester.

Astronomy

Mars is suddenly more interesting

6/9/2018 CNN

Jonathan Lunine, the David C. Duncan Professor in the Physical Sciences and director of Cornell’s Center for Astrophysics and Planetary Science, discusses recent discoveries on Mars in this CNN Online story.

Astronomy

The spacecraft that found for the first time where life could exist now

9/14/2017 The Washington Post

Jonathan Lunine, the David C. Duncan Professor in the Physical Sciences and director of Cornell Center for Astrophysics and Planetary Science at Cornell University, writes in this Washington Post opinion piece about his work as a scientist on the Cassini mission for the past 27 years.