JWST observations of the ultra-hot super-Earth exoplanet TOI-561 b show the strongest evidence yet for an atmosphere on a rocky planet outside our Solar System. TOI-561 b is a rocky world that’s about ...

Astronomer Michael R. Blanton will join the Carnegie Science Observatories as its 12th director, overseeing astronomical research in Pasadena and telescope operations at Las Campanas Observatory in ...

Washington, DC— Pairing cutting-edge chemistry with artificial intelligence, a multidisciplinary team of scientists found fresh chemical evidence of Earth’s earliest life—concealed in 3.3-billion-year ...

Pasadena, CA—New work from a research team including Carnegie’s Luke Bouma demonstrates that the Pleiades star cluster—also known as the Seven Sisters—is part of an enormous stellar complex spread ...

Our galaxy’s most abundant type of planet could be rich in liquid water due to formative interactions between magma oceans and primitive atmospheres during their early years. New experimental work ...

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 ...

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," ...

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 ...

This week, the U.S. Mint released a quarter into nationwide circulation commemorating the late Carnegie Science astronomer Vera Rubin’s trailblazing contributions to our understanding of the universe.

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 ...