LabMóvil makes that idea tangible. It represents the 22nd object in our #Carnegie125 series. The telescopes at Las Campanas, ...

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

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 ...

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, ...

Debris dust in the habitable zones of stars-otherwise known as exozodiacal dust-comes from extrasolar asteroids and comets and is thus an expected part of a planetary system. Background flux from the ...

Two new polyhydrides of calcium have been synthesized at high pressures and high temperatures and characterized by Raman spectroscopy, infrared spectroscopy, and synchrotron X-ray diffraction. Above ...

Beneath the original 1912 office building of the Carnegie Observatories on Santa Barbara Street in Pasadena sits a diffraction grating laboratory, frozen in time. A selection of diffraction gratings ...

Pasadena, CA—Biophysicist and microbiologist Mohamed “Moh” El-Naggar—who investigates how microbes exchange energy and electrons with their environments—will lead Carnegie Science’s Biosphere Sciences ...

What lit up the early universe? Did Earth make its own water? What is the invisible substance holding galaxies together? And how can astronomers peer inside a planet hundreds of light-years away?

The Carnegie Science Observatories operates several postdoctoral fellowship programs in observational and theoretical astronomy and instrumentation. Not all fellowships are offered every year. The ...

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Ocean acidification threatens many marine organisms, especially marine calcifiers. The only global-scale solution to ocean acidification remains rapid reduction in CO2 emissions. Nevertheless, ...