Star Trek's Genesis device melts a world down and rebuilds it. Thompson does something similar on a tiny scale, using a laser ...

In "The Devil in the Dark," the silicon-based Horta go undetected by scans built for carbon-based life. Wong expects real ...

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

Although the habitability of early Mars is now well established, its suitability for conditions favorable to an independent origin of life (OoL) has been less certain. With continued exploration, ...

Carnegie Science researchers are given the time, the resources, and the community to ask big questions and forge new paths of discovery. Our record of innovation is founded on our unique structure, ...

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 ...

This November, the Carnegie Science Observatories will join 15 local organizations to celebrate Pasadena’s rich astronomical heritage. For more than 100 years, astronomers have flocked to the city’s ...

For over a century, a series of Carnegie astronomers—now represented by a single, extremely dedicated volunteer observer—have used the 150-foot solar tower at Mount Wilson Observatory to record the ...

The shadow of interstellar dust looms large in observational astronomy, but the signatures it imprints on starlight can be leveraged to reveal the structure of our Galaxy. The dust extinction curve is ...

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 ...

A white-hot crucible plunges into a pot of water. The chemist gripping the tongs is visible from the shoulders down, his head cropped out of the frame. Beside the photograph, a hand-lettered caption ...