Over the past decade, hundreds of small exoplanets with sizes between 1 and 4 Re, so-called super-Earths and mini-Neptunes, have been discovered. Such small planets are the most common in the Galaxy ...

Baltimore, MD— Jumping workouts could help astronauts prevent the type of cartilage damage they are likely to endure during lengthy missions to Mars and the Moon, according to a Johns Hopkins ...

Thomas Kruijer will present his lecture in the Greenewalt Lecture Hall at Carnegie's Broad Branch Road Campus. Coffee, tea, and a light breakfast will be served before the lecture, at 10:30 a.m.

Join us as Caroline Morley, UT Austin, presents, "Prospects for Observing Exoplanets in the Coming Years with Ground-based Telescopes and JWST." Abstract: As exoplanet astronomers, we currently stand ...

Thousands of kilometres beneath our feet, Earth's iron-rich core was first seismically observed more than a century ago, but still hides many secrets. The outer core is slowly being consumed by the ...

Ken Caldeira, from Global Ecology, will present his lecture on Friday September, 27, 2019, in the Greenewalt Lecture Hall as part of DTM's Weekly Seminar Series. Coffee, tea, and a light breakfast ...

Erik Hauri, a staff scientist at DTM, will give a talk titled "Global Warming: Geochemical and Geophysical Implications of a Higher Mantle Temperature" at 11 a.m. on Thursday, May 11, 2017, in the ...

Water is necessary for life. It's also tremendously important for food and energy security and ecosystem health. Despite this, many people live in areas that experience water scarcity at least one ...

We’ve created a set of nerdy, science-inspired Valentines based on our research in astronomy, Earth and planetary science, and biology. Whether you’re captivated by exoplanets, dark matter, volcanoes, ...

This week's astronomy seminar, "There and Back Again: My Journey from Carnegie Fellow to Academia to NASA Program Scientist," will be presented by Dr. Hannah Jang-Condell from NASA-HQ. Lecture host: ...

This week, Carnegie's own Robert Hazen, Earth and Planets Laboratory, will present, "An Evolutionary System of Mineralogy: A Mineral Informatics Approach." ...

Jonathan Tucker, a DCO postdoctoral fellow at DTM, will give a talk titled "Mantle heterogeneity, giant impacts, and the origin of Earth's volatiles" at 11 a.m. on Thursday, February 2, 2017, in the ...