El-Naggar—who will join Carnegie Science in October, while retaining a faculty appointment at USC where he is a Dean's ...

Beneath the original 1912 office building of the Carnegie Observatories on Santa Barbara Street in Pasadena sits a ...

Carnegie Science researchers took on all four questions during the 2026 Astronomy Lecture Series. If you missed the talks—or ...

Rotation powered pulsars have extremely strong magnetic fields which sculpt the ultrarelativistic pulsar wind’s accelerator sites and guide the wind into the surrounding nebula. Wind particles emit ...

Carnegie Science researchers are using seismic waves to investigate a geologic mystery hidden beneath Bermuda. In late May 2026, they will return to the island to service their instruments and collect ...

Stellar streams have often been touted as the only structures that can probe the low mass end of the dark matter subhalo function because stream-subhalo interactions would create inhomogeneities in ...

The better we can understand how algae’s special carbon dioxide-concentrating superpower is so successful, the likelier it is that we could engineer this function into crop plants, or harness it for ...

A revolution is brewing in biology. Scientists are linking genomes to ecosystems in ways that cross disciplinary boundaries and define new fields of inquiry. Advances in biotechnology have shown that ...

When an offer to join a team of geochemists and biologists who were headed to the new fissure at the Fagradalsfjall “baby,” Roman grabbed two of her custom-built seismological monitoring tools and ...

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 ...

Vera Berger of Pomona College aimed to discover which galaxies are most efficient at producing Type Ia supernovae. She used spectroscopic data to study dim host galaxies of Type Ia supernovae and ...

We discuss the detailed composition of 28 extremely metal-poor (EMP) dwarfs, 22 of which are from the Hamburg/ESO Survey (HES), based on Keck echelle spectra. Our sample has a median [Fe/H] of - 2.7 ...