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 ...

Approximately one-quarter of the anthropogenic carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere each year is absorbed by the global oceans, causing measurable declines in surface ocean pH, carbonate ion ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...