He studies how water and other gases, such as hydrogen and helium, form and behave on the Moon, using lunar dust collected ...

In 1906, he began a photograph album that he would add to for several years, titling it The Human Side of Geo-Physics at ...

What do distant stars, the deepest oceans, and the origins of life have in common? Carbon! Join Carnegie Science and NPR's Short Wave for a special live podcast recording exploring the extraordinary ...

On Thursday, October 29, at Caveat NYC on the Lower East Side Carnegie Science will host another night of science-themed fun and games. Something is out there. Several somethings, actually, and ...

Post-starburst galaxies are believed to be in a rapid transition between major merger starbursts and quiescent ellipticals. Their optical spectrum is dominated by A-type stars, suggesting a starburst ...

Carnegie Science's mission is to advance investigation, research, and discovery, and to apply that knowledge for the improvement of humankind. We empower world-class investigators to pursue the ...

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 ...

Debris dust in the habitable zones of stars-otherwise known as exozodiacal dust-comes from extrasolar asteroids and comets and is thus an expected part of a planetary system. Background flux from the ...

While several processes are thought to be important in the early phase of planet formation, most theories converge on a final stage dominated by giant impacts that set the ultimate masses and orbital ...

Approximately one-quarter of the anthropogenic carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere each year is absorbed by the global oceans, causing measurable declines in surface ocean pH, carbonate ion ...

For Carnegie astronomers in the early 1900s, data security meant fire protection. That's why Carnegie Science Observatories founder George Ellery Hale selected a Mosler Safe Company vault door to ...

When Marion Le Voyer returned to the Earth and Planets Laboratory, muscle memory took over. She parked in the same spot she had used as a postdoctoral fellow more than a decade earlier. From there, ...