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Rocket Launch — Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

March 29, 2023

Campus News

Carnegie Science Earth and Planets Laboratory to Host Talk on New Era of Sample Return Missions

Innocent Ezenwa at Microscope

March 29, 2023

Spotlight

Unveiling the Secrets of Earth's Core with Mineral Physicist Innocent Ezenwa

A cross section of the fruit fly gut that is preferentially colonized by the bacterium Lactobacillus plantarum.

March 29, 2023

How the gut creates a cozy home for beneficial microbiome species

Great Barrier Reef

March 21, 2023

Awards

Carnegie’s Phillip Cleves Awarded the Inaugural Pew Marine and Biomedical Science Fellowship

NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman tweeted this photo from the International Space Station on Tuesday morning, Sept. 2, 2014. Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman

March 15, 2023

Where Did Earth’s Water Come From? Not Melted Meteorites.

Diamond Anvil Cell

March 06, 2023

Superdiamond carbon-boron clathrates represent a promising new class of conventional superconductors

Asteroid Ryugu captured with Hayabusa2’s Optical Navigation Camera - Telescopic (ONC-T) on July 20, 2018 at around 16:00 JST. Image credit: JAXA, University of Tokyo, Kochi University, Rikkyo University, Nagoya University, Chiba Institute of Technology, Meiji University, University of Aizu, AIST.

February 24, 2023

Organic molecules found on first primitive asteroid sample returned to Earth

Artist's conception of a a large gas giant planet orbiting a small red dwarf star called TOI-5205. Image by Katherine Cain, courtesy of the Carnegie Institution for Science.

February 21, 2023

“Forbidden” planet orbiting small star challenges gas giant formation theories

Moises Exposito-Alonso

February 16, 2023

Awards

Carnegie’s Exposito-Alonso receives Tansley Medal

Illustration showing Earth's differentiated layers.

February 15, 2023

What do early Earth’s core formation and drip coffee have in common?