Carnegie’s stewardship of Wood’s original gift to advance seismological research has allowed the fund to grow to a size where ...

The setting was familiar, but the purpose was new. In September, Le Voyer returned to Carnegie Science as EPL's first ...

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 ...

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 ...

A record-setting pristine star provides a window into the dawn of stars and galaxies in the universe. This groundbreaking find connects the work of two telescopes at Carnegie Science's Las Campanas ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

The distribution, accumulation and circulation of oxygen and hydrogen in Earth's interior dictate the geochemical evolution of the hydrosphere, atmosphere and biosphere(1). The oxygen-rich atmosphere ...

JWST has revealed galaxies with extreme emission-line spectra and unexpected abundance patterns only a few hundred million years after the Big Bang. These observations offer a window into early star ...

The Drosophila Gateway™ Vector collection is a set of 68 Gateway-based vectors designed to express epitope-tagged proteins in Drosophila culture cells or flies. At its core is Invitrogen's Gateway™ ...