What if Mars once hosted life? That’s the big question Anushree Srivastava is helping to answer. As an astrobiologist, she studies some of the most extreme environments on Earth—like Arctic impact ...

IFU installed daytime only, locked in place, must be left in all night. Astronomy Festival on the National Mall Every year, Carnegie astronomers from the Earth and Planets Laboratory have a table at ...

Jessica Luo, Research Oceanographer at the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. This seminar will be rescheduled for fall 2025. The Zakem Lab will ...

Research Program: I worked with my mentor, Matthias Raives, on recreating one of his papers simulating winds of magnetars (neutron stars with strong magnetic fields), but instead I'll simulating hot ...

The new frontier in exoplanet research is the characterization of low-mass exoplanets now that their masses and radii are routinely measured. With these observations, the first task is to determine ...

What if we could hold the cosmos in our hands? For centuries, humanity’s quest to understand the cosmos has relied on distant observation and serendipitous discovery. Astronomers observed objects from ...

In 1903, just one year after Carnegie Science’s founding, the Desert Laboratory was established on Tumamoc Hill outside Tucson, Arizona. This boundary pushing, interdisciplinary facility was devoted ...

Step into the VizLab at the Carnegie Science Observatories, where cutting-edge visualization technology is transforming how astronomers collaborate, explore cosmic mysteries, and inspire the next ...

Larry Nittler, staff scientist at DTM, will give a talk titled "Presolar Stardust in the Solar System" at 11 a.m. on Thursday, 28 March 2016, in the Greenewalt Lecture Hall as part of DTM's Weekly ...

5758 Benton, L. D., J. G. Ryan, and F. Tera, Boron isotope systematics of slab fluids as inferred from a serpentine seamount, Mariana forearc, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett ...

Mercedes López-Morales, an astronomer at the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, will give a talk titled “Breaking Through Exoplanetary Atmospheres” at 11 a.m. on Thursday, July 21, 2016, in ...

From telescopes redefining the cosmos to space robotics, lunar living, and AI-powered astronomy, this year’s SXSW lineup is packed with mind-expanding sessions for astronomy lovers, sci-fi enthusiasts ...