The nature of the first stars (or “popIII” stars), including their IMF, supernovae, and nucleosynthetic yields, remains a key astrophysical mystery. Although JWST has opened up new windows into the ...

Last week, Carnegie Science brought exoplanetary research to D.C.’s favorite comic convention with a stellar panel titled “Exploring the Science of Sci-Fi Planets.” The session drew an enthusiastic ...

There are no planets intermediate in size between Earth and Neptune in our Solar System, yet these objects are found around a substantial fraction of other stars1. Population statistics show that ...

Ten takeaways from "The New Golden Age of Astronomy: Hubble’s Universe Today" celebrating the 100th anniversary of Edwin Hubble’s groundbreaking discovery that our galaxy isn’t alone in the universe.

This winter, a delegation from Dallas’ Perot Museum of Nature and Science visited Carnegie Science’s Las Campanas Observatory, deepening a programmatic partnership that shared the wonders of the Great ...

Join us Thursday mornings throughout October for seminars on the theme of redox controls on planetary processes. Continuing the series Vincenzo Stagno of Università di Roma will present, "Redox and ...

In the first Neighborhood Lecture of 2025, Carnegie Science welcomed its 12th President, John Mulchaey, to its Broad Branch Road campus for a journey through 100 years of astrophysical breakthroughs.

The FEniCS‘19 conference is an opportunity for all those interested in the FEniCS Project and related projects to exchange ideas, communicate their results and network with the automated scientific ...

The Earth is special to us – it’s our home. But is it really special as a planet? Every star we can see in the night sky is likely to be orbited by planets. There are probably a thousand billion ...

Washington, DC—Talk about a noisy neighbor! Recent research about Proxima Centauri, our Sun’s star next door offered new details about the twisting tension in its magnetic fields that results in daily ...

Washington, DC—Carnegie Science’s Anna Michalak was elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, one of the world’s largest scientific societies. She was recognized for ...

Join us for the seminar, "Magnetic field generation and stratification in the cores of Earth, Mars and Mercury" by Dr. Chris Davies of the University of Leeds, UK. The seminar will be both in-person ...