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

Carnegie's newest scientific division, Biosphere Sciences & Engineering, is devoted to disrupting the traditional, siloed perspective on research in the life sciences and pursuing an integrated ...

Drawing on more than a century of science, our multidisciplinary department discovers exoplanets, creates new materials, illuminates Earth's inner workings, and seeks to better understand the universe ...

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, ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Pasadena, CA—A team of scientists led by Harvard University’s Collin Cherubim and including Shreyas Vissapragada and other Carnegie astronomers has detected evidence of an atmosphere on a rocky planet ...

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 ...

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 ...

On July 5, 1945, a report landed on President Harry Truman's desk conveying an outsized ambition: to chart the course of American science for the next half-century. Titled Science: The Endless ...