Postdoctoral alumna Jo Ann Eder is committed to making the world a better place by supporting organizations, like Carnegie, that create and foster STEM learning opportunities for all.

Gwen Rudie specializes in observational studies of distant galaxies and the diffuse gas which surrounds them—the circumgalactic medium.

Staff Scientist, Director of the Carnegie Astrophysics Summer Student Internship (CASSI) Gwen Rudie specializes in observational studies of distant galaxies and the diffuse gas which surrounds ...

Staff Scientist, Director of the Carnegie Astrophysics Summer Student Internship (CASSI) Gwen Rudie specializes in observational studies of distant galaxies and the diffuse gas which surrounds ...

From spying on dusty disks birthing baby planets to gas giants that shouldn’t exist, Carnegie’s latest Neighborhood Lecture offered a rare double feature on the extremes of world-building. In honor of ...

Washington, DC— Our galaxy’s most abundant type of planet could be rich in liquid water due to formative interactions between ...

Meet 2025 SC79, which has the second-fastest unique asteroid orbit in the Solar System. It orbits the Sun in just 128 days! Washington, DC—A newly discovered asteroid travels around the Sun in just ...

Joseph Gall, often called the "father of modern cell biology" was recognized by the American Association for the Advancement of Science with its Golden Goose Award for his work on "nature's oddities," ...

Last week, more than 70 experts in Earth’s geologic history, including geochronologists, astrochronologists, and paleoclimatologists, gathered in person and online at Carnegie Science’s Earth & ...

In 1983, at the age of 81, Barbara McClintock received the news that would cement her place in scientific history. She had won a solo Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for her discovery of ...

Using data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia mission, scientists have found a huge exoplanet and a brown dwarf. This is the first time a planet has been uniquely discovered by Gaia’s ability to ...

For humans, the most important star in the universe is the Sun. The second most important star is nestled inside in the Andromeda galaxy. Don’t go looking for it. The flickering star is 2.2 million ...