As each year draws to a close, we show our Carnegie pride with a holiday card featuring original artwork from a member of our ...

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 ...

Through school visits, public events, an inflatable planetarium, hands-on demonstrations, and Carnegie Observatories’ annual Open House, Outreach Coordinator Jeff Rich is connecting people—especially ...

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 ...

Carnegie Science's Las Campanas Observatory is home to world-class telescopes and exciting discoveries. But it's also a devoted hub for sharing the universe with communities throughout Chile. LCO ...

A set of field photographs taken in 1968 capture the rugged Chilean mountaintop on the eve of its transformation into one of the world's premier astronomical observatories. Rolling desert ridgelines.

How do diatoms thrive in a wide variety of light conditions? New research reveals a gene, STROBE1, that may contribute to their abililty to succeed across a range of marine environments, including ...

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, ...

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: ...

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 ...