Earlier in the year, Carnegie organized a daylong goodbye symposium on the Stanford University campus, bringing together friends and alumni from across the eras for one last hurrah. Earlier this year, ...

In "The Devil in the Dark," the silicon-based Horta go undetected by scans built for carbon-based life. Wong expects real ...

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 ...

Well-understood physical and chemical processes can easily explain the alleged evidence of a secret, large-scale atmospheric spraying program, commonly referred to as “chemtrails” or “covert ...

Although the habitability of early Mars is now well established, its suitability for conditions favorable to an independent origin of life (OoL) has been less certain. With continued exploration, ...

LuSEE-Night is a trailblazing radio experiment launching in late 2026 to the lunar farside, where it will pioneer ultra-long-wavelength astrophysics by observing in the Moon's shielded zone and make ...

On Thursday, October 29, at Caveat NYC on the Lower East Side Carnegie Science will host another night of science-themed fun and games. Something is out there. Several somethings, actually, and ...

Many previous studies have shown that a solar forcing must be greater than a CO2 forcing to cause the same global mean surface temperature change but a process-based mechanistic explanation is lacking ...

He studies how water and other gases, such as hydrogen and helium, form and behave on the Moon, using lunar dust collected during the Apollo program. Kling earned a bachelor’s degree in geology from ...

Through school visits, public events, an inflatable planetarium, hands-on demonstrations, and Carnegie Observatories’ annual Open House, Outreach Coordinator Jeff Rich is connecting people—especially ...

The genetic makeup of this extraordinarily hardy organism has provided researchers with a better understanding of red algal evolution and the ways in which these organisms cope with their brutal ...

Pasadena, CA—A team of scientists led by Harvard University’s Collin Cherubim and including Shreyas Vissapragada and other Carnegie astronomers has detected evidence of an atmosphere on a rocky planet ...