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In labs and in the field. Under microscopes and behind telescopes. Every month, Carnegie scientists publish research that reshapes what we know about life, Earth, and the universe. Welcome to 10 Cool ...

From teeming biodiversity hotspots to inhospitable environments where resilient microorganisms thrive, life has reshaped our planet. What can it teach us about searching for biosignatures on distant ...

Carnegie's Luke Bouma presented exciting new research at the American Astronomical Society meeting revealing how large clumps of cool plasma that are trapped in an M dwarf star's magnetosphere can be ...

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 ...

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 ...

Stella Ocker, a postdoctoral fellow at the Carnegie Observatories, studies the interstellar medium—the gas and dust between stars—and the diffuse ionized material that shapes galaxies like our own.

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 ...

Ever since life first sprang up from the primordial soup, it has found new ways to expand. But what happens when life begins to leave its home planet? That was the question NASA astrobiologist Dr.

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 ...