Learn how Carnegie Scientists are using the James Webb Space Telescope to advance research frontiers in astrophysics and planetary science. Cutting-edge astronomy JWST is an incredible new tool that ...

Carnegie's newest scientific division, Biosphere Sciences & Engineering, is devoted to disrupting the traditional, siloed perspective on research in the life sciences and pursuing an integrated ...

Stella Ocker, a postdoctoral fellow at the Carnegie Observatories, studies the interstellar medium—the gas and dust between stars—and the diffuse ionized material that shapes galaxies like our own.

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 ...

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 ...

Our galaxy’s most abundant type of planet could be rich in liquid water due to formative interactions between magma oceans and primitive atmospheres during their early years. New experimental work ...

Meet 2025 SC79, which has the second-fastest unique asteroid orbit in the Solar System. It orbits the Sun in just 128 days! Washington, DC—A newly discovered asteroid travels around the Sun in just ...

Are we alone in the universe? A new $5 million NASA-funded project co-led by Carnegie’s Michael Wong and NASA’s Caleb Scharf will train A.I. on a vast planetary dataset to recognize signs of life and ...

In the 1960s, a bold vision took Carnegie astronomers to Chile’s Atacama Desert, where they transformed a remote mountaintop into one of the world’s leading observatories. Graced with clear, dark ...

This week, the U.S. Mint released a quarter into nationwide circulation commemorating the late Carnegie Science astronomer Vera Rubin’s trailblazing contributions to our understanding of the universe.

Washington, DC—Talk about a noisy neighbor! Recent research about Proxima Centauri, our Sun’s star next door offered new details about the twisting tension in its magnetic fields that results in daily ...