Registration Opens March 31, 2026 | Dr. Andrew Robertson will explain how astronomers came to believe that dark matter exists, and how some gargantuan collisions of galaxy clusters provide some of the ...

In July 1932, young pathology resident Elizabeth M. Ramsey was performing a routine autopsy with a colleague at New Haven Hospital when she made an extraordinary discovery: an apparently normal human ...

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.

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 ...

Approximately one-quarter of the anthropogenic carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere each year is absorbed by the global oceans, causing measurable declines in surface ocean pH, carbonate ion ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.