Carnegie Science's mission is to advance investigation, research, and discovery, and to apply that knowledge for the improvement of humankind. We empower world-class investigators to pursue the ...

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 ...

Q: To start out, can you give us a high-level overview of your research interests? Vissapragada: I am interested in all things exoplanets. I think it's fair to say, in general, the sort of thing ...

Join us for a night of science-themed fun and games at Caveat NYC. Part The Dating Game, part Choose Your Own Adventure, this audience-driven experience puts contestants in charge of designing a space ...

Nature is defined by laws. Based on meticulously observed phenomena, these fundamental rules help us understand how our universe works and enable us to predict the outcomes of different scenarios.

From teeming biodiversity hotspots to inhospitable environments where resilient microorganisms thrive, life has reshaped our planet. What can it teach us about searching for biosignatures on distant ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Astronomer Michael R. Blanton will join the Carnegie Science Observatories as its 12th director, overseeing astronomical research in Pasadena and telescope operations at Las Campanas Observatory in ...

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 ...