Carnegie Science researchers are given the time, the resources, and the community to ask big questions and forge new paths of discovery.

Carnegie Science researchers are given the time, the resources, and the community to ask big questions and forge new paths of discovery. Our record of innovation is founded on our unique structure, ...

A record-setting pristine star provides a window into the dawn of stars and galaxies in the universe. This groundbreaking ...

Sophisticated models predict that a quasi-one-dimensional superionic state of carbon hydride exists under the extreme ...

Planets are born from the rotating disk of gas and dust that surrounds a star in its youth. While it is commonly accepted ...

In the winter of 1933, future Carnegie Science archaeologist Anna Shephard travelled from Santa Fe’s Laboratory of Anthropology to Carnegie’s Geophysical Laboratory in Washington, D.C., where she ...

When the legendary Carnegie Science biologist Joseph Gall died in September 2024, the days and weeks that followed saw an outpouring of tributes that extolled his mentorship of generations of emerging ...

Carnegie's Luke Bouma presented exciting new research at the American Astronomical Society meeting revealing how large clumps of cool plasma that are trapped in an M dwarf star's magnetosphere can be ...

JWST observations of the ultra-hot super-Earth exoplanet TOI-561 b show the strongest evidence yet for an atmosphere on a rocky planet outside our Solar System. TOI-561 b is a rocky world that’s about ...

Washington, DC— Pairing cutting-edge chemistry with artificial intelligence, a multidisciplinary team of scientists found fresh chemical evidence of Earth’s earliest life—concealed in 3.3-billion-year ...

Ever since life first sprang up from the primordial soup, it has found new ways to expand. But what happens when life begins to leave its home planet? That was the question NASA astrobiologist Dr.

Pasadena, CA—New work from a research team including Carnegie’s Luke Bouma demonstrates that the Pleiades star cluster—also known as the Seven Sisters—is part of an enormous stellar complex spread ...