Washington, DC— Pairing cutting-edge chemistry with artificial intelligence, a multidisciplinary team of scientists found ...

This November, the Carnegie Science Observatories will join 15 local organizations to celebrate Pasadena’s rich astronomical heritage. For more than 100 years, astronomers have flocked to the city’s ...

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 ...

Joseph Gall, often called the "father of modern cell biology" was recognized by the American Association for the Advancement of Science with its Golden Goose Award for his work on "nature's oddities," ...

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 ...

Last week, more than 70 experts in Earth’s geologic history, including geochronologists, astrochronologists, and paleoclimatologists, gathered in person and online at Carnegie Science’s Earth & ...

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 ...

Once construction is completed at Carnegie Science's Las Campanas Observatory, the Giant Magellan Telescope will be one of the world's largest optical telescopes with unprecedented resolution. The ...

The vast majority of stars with mass similar to that of the Sun are expected to destroy lithium (Li) gradually over the course of their lives, via low-temperature nuclear burning. This has now been ...