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

Rubin and her collaborator Kent Ford revolutionized our understanding of the cosmos. Ford developed the Image Tube Spectrograph, which greatly enhanced Rubin’s ability to study a problem of great ...

Carnegie Science's mission is to advance investigation, research, and discovery, and to apply that knowledge for the improvement of humankind. We empower world-class investigators to pursue the ...

Among the many treasures held in the Carnegie Science Archives is a remarkable collection of more than 500 photographs documenting the life and work of pioneering Carnegie Science astronomer Vera ...

Washington, DC— The U.S. National Science Foundation is advancing the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT), under construction at Carnegie Science’s Las Campanas Observatory, into a critical new stage of ...

The emplacement of the 2.05- billion- year- old Bushveld complex, the world's largest layered intrusion and platinum- group element ( PGE) repository(1), is a singular event in the history of the ...

A delegation from Dallas’ Perot Museum of Nature and Science visited Carnegie Science’s Las Campanas Observatory, deepening a programmatic partnership that shared the wonders of the Great North ...

When Barbara McClintock joined Carnegie Science it was a perfect match: a scientist who craved independence found an institution dedicated to supporting unfettered research. McClintock's ...

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 ...

In January 1925, Carnegie Science astronomer Edwin Hubble opened the doors to the cosmos by announcing his discovery that the universe existed beyond our own Milky Way galaxy. Carnegie, the American ...

New research from Carnegie Science biologists opens could lead to the creation of probiotics that are optimized for specific niches in the human gut.

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 ...