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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Planets are born from the rotating disk of gas and dust that surrounds a star in its youth. While it is commonly accepted that giant planets form in these cloudy disks that result from the birth of ...

For the first time, astronomers used galactic archaeology techniques to trace the chemical "fossil record" of a galaxy outside our own Milky Way. Pasadena, CA—A team of astronomers, including Carnegie ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

We present detailed chemical abundances in eight clusters in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). We measure abundances of 22 elements for clusters spanning a range in age of 0.05-12 Gyr, providing a ...