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The Pleiades, also called the Seven Sisters, as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope in 2004. Credit: NASA, ESA and AURA/Caltech.

November 06, 2025

Science News

The Pleiades is part of an enormous stellar complex birthed by the same star-forming event

Diana Roman and Andrea Goltz prepare a "trash-cano" at the Earth & Planets Laboratory Open House.

November 03, 2025

Feature Story

Hundreds of Science Enthusiasts Attend Inaugural EPL Open House

New research uses laboratory experiments to demonstrate that water is naturally created during the planet formation process. Credit: Navid Marvi/Carnegie Science

October 30, 2025

Science News

How do planets get wet? Experiments show water creation during planet formation process

Postdoc Double Feature - Shubham and Sierra

October 28, 2025

Campus News

Postdocs explore the origins of worlds in Neighborhood Lecture double feature

Grassland with forest on the horizon

October 24, 2025

Q&A

Prolonged, extreme drought in grassland and shrubland risks Dust Bowl conditions

"Macromolecular Metabiology," used for frontispiece of CIW publication 624, "Studies of Macromolecular Biosynthesis"

October 17, 2025

Feature Story

From Atoms to Cells: A History of the Biophysics Section

Images from the night of 2025 SC79’s discovery showing its motion relative to background stars. Photographs courtesy of Scott S. Sheppard.

October 16, 2025

Fast-moving asteroid found in Sun’s glare

Stars in space

September 30, 2025

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Vote for Carnegie Science’s 2025 Holiday Card

Artist's conception of moon-forming environment. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Gabriele Cugno (University of Zürich, NCCR PlanetS), Sierra Grant (Carnegie Institution for Science), Joseph Olmsted (STScI), Leah Hustak (STScI)

September 29, 2025

Science News

Astronomers get first-ever peek into a gas giant’s moon-forming environment

Steven Shirey

September 24, 2025

Awards

Steven B. Shirey awarded AGU’s Hess Medal