Sheppard joined Carnegie as a prestigeous NASA Hubble Fellow in 2004 and was appointed to a faculty position in 2007. He ...

El-Naggar—who will join Carnegie Science in October, while retaining a faculty appointment at USC where he is a Dean's ...

Rotation powered pulsars have extremely strong magnetic fields which sculpt the ultrarelativistic pulsar wind’s accelerator sites and guide the wind into the surrounding nebula. Wind particles emit ...

The better we can understand how algae’s special carbon dioxide-concentrating superpower is so successful, the likelier it is that we could engineer this function into crop plants, or harness it for ...

Stellar streams have often been touted as the only structures that can probe the low mass end of the dark matter subhalo function because stream-subhalo interactions would create inhomogeneities in ...

When an offer to join a team of geochemists and biologists who were headed to the new fissure at the Fagradalsfjall “baby,” Roman grabbed two of her custom-built seismological monitoring tools and ...

For nearly 60 years, Star Trek has sent its crews toward the same question that working astrobiologists ask every day: What does life look like somewhere that isn't Earth? In this Neighborhood Lecture ...

Carnegie Science researchers are given the time, the resources, and the community to ask big questions and forge new paths of discovery. Our record of innovation is founded on our unique structure, ...

Post-starburst galaxies are believed to be in a rapid transition between major merger starbursts and quiescent ellipticals. Their optical spectrum is dominated by A-type stars, suggesting a starburst ...

The distribution, accumulation and circulation of oxygen and hydrogen in Earth's interior dictate the geochemical evolution of the hydrosphere, atmosphere and biosphere(1). The oxygen-rich atmosphere ...

A leadership change represents the dawn of a new era for Carnegie Science. Eric D. Isaacs steps down at the conclusion of a transformative six-year period for the institution. Science Deputy and ...

Carnegie Science researchers are using seismic waves to investigate a geologic mystery hidden beneath Bermuda. In late May 2026, they will return to the island to service their instruments and collect ...