Life on Earth is built on partnerships. From tiny bacteria to giant trees, many organisms survive and thrive because of symbiosis. In this engaging talk, Dr. Margaret McFall-Ngai will explore the ...

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 ...

Graced with clear, dark skies and an exceedingly arid climate, Chile's Atacama Desert boasts astronomical "seeing" that is the best in the world. It has become a mecca for stargazers with more than 20 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Washington, DC—Talk about a noisy neighbor! Recent research about Proxima Centauri, our Sun’s star next door offered new details about the twisting tension in its magnetic fields that results in daily ...

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 ...

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 ...

John Mulchaey—an expert in galaxy cluster research and a longtime leader in the scientific community with a prolific record of astronomy outreach programming—is named Carnegie Science's 12th President ...