Carnegie Science empowers our investigators to pursue the biggest questions of our time, advancing discoveries that transform our understanding of life, planets, and the broader universe. Our research ...

Washington, DC— The U.S. National Science Foundation is advancing the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT), under construction at Carnegie Science’s Las Campanas Observatory, into a critical new stage of ...

Mercury has a compositionally diverse surface that was produced by different periods of igneous activity suggesting heterogeneous mantle sources. Understanding the structure of Mercury's mantle formed ...

The. Rosa Lab's research into smarter water and nitrogen management is developing a blueprint for sustainability that will enable farmers to thrive in a warming world.

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 ...

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are amongst the most energetic explosions in space, and are typically divided into two categories based on their duration. Short GRBs (< 2 s) originate from neutron star (NS) ...

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 ...

Biosphere Sciences and Engineering is a unified, interdisciplinary division that spans research efforts in developmental biology, ecology, and plant science. We're working toward a unified presence in ...