Carnegie Science astronomers are advancing a new understanding of cosmic processes, from the synthesis of “star stuff”—the raw materials from which everything in the universe is constructed—to the ...

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

How did we get here and are we alone? Working at the nexus of biology, Earth science, and astronomy, Carnegie Science investigators boldly traverse disciplinary boundaries to reveal the relationships ...

From teeming biodiversity hotspots to inhospitable environments where resilient microorganisms thrive, life has reshaped our planet. What can it teach our researchers about searching for signs of life ...

Our experts reveal how our planet formed, evolved, differentiated into layers and developed the interconnected system of dynamic processes that made it habitable and enabled life to arise and thrive.

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," ...

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 ...

In 1983, at the age of 81, Barbara McClintock received the news that would cement her place in scientific history. She had won a solo Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for her discovery of ...

In 1903, just one year after Carnegie Science’s founding, the Desert Laboratory was established on Tumamoc Hill outside Tucson, Arizona. This boundary pushing, interdisciplinary facility was devoted ...

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 ...