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 ...

In July 1932, young pathology resident Elizabeth M. Ramsey was performing a routine autopsy with a colleague at New Haven Hospital when she made an extraordinary discovery: an apparently normal human ...

New work examines how the presence of lighter elements in the predominantly iron core could affect the geodynamo’s genesis and sustainability. Washington, DC— How did the chemical makeup of our planet ...

Registration Opens March 31, 2026 | Dr. Andrew Robertson will explain how astronomers came to believe that dark matter exists, and how some gargantuan collisions of galaxy clusters provide some of the ...

The National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine Thursday ranked the U.S. Extremely Large Telescope program as a top strategic priority, recommending federal support for the final ...

We sat down with Staff Scientist Jeff Dukes to learn more about a groundbreaking global study on the impact of extended drought conditions on grasslands and shrublands. Washington, DC— Grasslands and ...

Earlier this year, Carnegie sat down (via Zoom) with Jacqueline and Simon Mitton, authors of Vera Rubin: A Life, the first biography of the legendary Carnegie scientist Vera Rubin, whose work on the ...

Plumes of hot rock surging upward from the Earth’s mantle at volcanic hotspots contain evidence that the Earth’s formative years may have been even more chaotic than previously thought. Washington, DC ...

Every year since Carnegie's founding in 1902, the institution has published a selection of its discoveries in an annual Year Book. Over time, this annual report evolved from a complete record of ...

Gene inactivation has become the gold standard for determining gene function in the mouse. Many genes inactivated in the germ line cause early lethality that precludes phenotypic assessment at a later ...

We present a revised distance to the nearby galaxy NGC 6822 using a new multi-band fit to both previously published and new optical, near-, and mid-infrared data for Cepheid variables. The new data ...

We've collected several successful Carnegie Fellowship applications, which have been generously made available by previous postdoctoral fellows. Please note that these are only meant as examples, and ...