In 1906, he began a photograph album that he would add to for several years, titling it The Human Side of Geo-Physics at ...

What do distant stars, the deepest oceans, and the origins of life have in common? Carbon! Join Carnegie Science and NPR's Short Wave for a special live podcast recording exploring the extraordinary ...

Taken together, they constitute the longest continual record of sunspot activity with magnetic data ever made, and the 26th ...

The Hamilton Ohio-based company was contracted to build the gold vault at Fort Knox, as well as the vault to house the U.S.

What is radio astronomy? And how does it reveal the "exotic" and "energetic" physical phenomena that shape the universe? Carnegie Science Observatories researcher Allison Matthews takes us on a ...

For the first time, astronomers used galactic archaeology techniques to trace the chemical "fossil record" of a galaxy outside our own Milky Way. Pasadena, CA—A team of astronomers, including Carnegie ...

The Henrietta Infrared Spectrograph will study alien atmospheres in unprecedented detail, transforming how we understand worlds beyond our Solar System. For centuries, people have looked at the night ...

For the second year in a row, the Carnegie Science Earth & Planets Laboratory (EPL) is opening its doors for a free science Open House—and you're invited! At the Earth and Planets Laboratory (EPL), ...

New research led by William Frazer, a seismologist at Carnegie Science, and Jeffrey Park of Yale University reveals that Bermuda is supported by a type of geological structure unlike anything seen ...

Join us at the Carnegie Observatories campus for a fun-filled afternoon of learning about space. Come meet our professional astronomers and learn about how we study the universe. Curious minds have ...

Vera Rubin provided the first observational evidence that supported of the existence of dark matter—the invisible material that makes up more than 80 percent of the mass of the universe. 1993: ...

“The three newly discovered moons are the faintest ever found around these two ice giant planets using ground-based telescopes,” explained Carnegie astronomer Scott S. Sheppard. “It took special image ...