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 ...

Three scientists at the Earth and Planets Laboratory are chasing the same question from different angles, and their answers are rewriting the story of our planet's oceans. Anat Shahar makes planets ...

So, you’ve been stargazing with your naked eyes or a set of binoculars, but you’re eager to see further and more detail. It might be time for a telescope. But how do you get started? “A telescope is a ...

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 find connects the work of two telescopes at Carnegie Science's Las Campanas ...

Washington, DC—The interiors of ice giant planets like Uranus and Neptune could be home to a previously unknown state of matter, according to new computational simulations by Carnegie’s Cong Liu and ...

Washington, D.C.—Observations of the highly unusual—sometimes called “forbidden”—exoplanet TOI-5205 b taken by JWST suggest the giant planet’s atmosphere has fewer heavier elements than its host star.

Great science begins with great questions, and great questions can come from anyone. This Women's History Month, we spoke with some of the researchers at Carnegie Science who are working to make sure ...

When the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) launched on Christmas Day 2021, it promised to revolutionize our view of the cosmos. Three years later, it's delivering in spectacular fashion—from planets ...

The Henrietta Infrared Spectrograph will study alien atmospheres in unprecedented detail, transforming how we understand worlds beyond our Solar System. For centuries, people have looked at the night ...

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 ...

In labs and in the field. Under microscopes and behind telescopes. Every month, Carnegie scientists publish research that reshapes what we know about life, Earth, and the universe. Welcome to 10 Cool ...