Washington, DC— Our galaxy’s most abundant type of planet could be rich in liquid water due to formative interactions between ...

Colloquium: Title TBAScience Biosphere Sciences & Engineering Earth & Planets Laboratory Observatories Research Areas Legal Financial Statements Conflict of Interest ...

Microbiome specialist Margaret McFall-Ngai’s research focuses on the beneficial relationships between animals and bacteria, including the establishment and maintenance of symbiosis, the evolution of ...

Dark matter makes up the majority of matter in the universe, and yet fundamental questions remain about its nature. The abundance and density profiles of dark matter halos depends directly on the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Using data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia mission, scientists have found a huge exoplanet and a brown dwarf. This is the first time a planet has been uniquely discovered by Gaia’s ability to ...

“Gentlemen, your work now begins, your aims are high, you seek to expand known forces, to discover and utilize unknown forces for the benefit of man. Than this there can scarcely be a greater work. I ...

For humans, the most important star in the universe is the Sun. The second most important star is nestled inside in the Andromeda galaxy. Don’t go looking for it. The flickering star is 2.2 million ...

Baltimore, MD—A team of researchers led by Carnegie Science’s Will Ludington, Karina Gutiérrez-García, and Kevin Aumiller identified genes that enable a beneficial bacterial species to colonize ...

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 ...