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Artist's conception of neutron stars colliding, by Robin Dienel, courtesy of Carnegie Institution for Science

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The first meeting of the board of trustees, January 29, 1902

January 29, 2025

The Founding of Carnegie Science

Edwin Hubble and James Jeans at the Mount Wilson Observatory 100-inch Telescope

January 15, 2025

Feature Story

Carnegie Science celebrates Edwin Hubble's discovery of the universe

The Milky Way visible over a mountain road. Courtesy of Yuri Beletsky.

January 13, 2025

Awards

Mulchaey and Phillips named AAS fellows

A very long solar filament that had been snaking around the Sun erupted (Dec. 6, 2010) with a flourish. Credit: NASA/GSFC/SOHO

December 23, 2024

Feature Story

The Year of the Sun

Installation photograph, Mapping the Infinite: Cosmologies Across Cultures, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Oct 20, 2024–Mar 2, 2025, 2025, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

December 23, 2024

Feature Story

Carnegie Science contributes to LACMA exhibition on cosmologies across cultures

Las Campanas Observatory — Las Campanas Observatory in Chile, established in 1969 by Carnegie Science as light pollution in Los Angeles increasingly hindered scientific observing there. Credit: Carnegie Science

December 23, 2024

Q&A

Q&A | Insights from early career astronomers Jessica Spake, Peter Senchyna, and Shreyas Vissapragada

Karina Gutierrez Garcia in the lab with a pipette

December 20, 2024

Spotlight

Postdoc Spotlight: Karina Gutierrez-Garcia

Maxine Singer with the rotunda of the Carnegie Institution administration building

December 18, 2024

Feature Story

Honoring a trailblazing scientist and leader

Lactobacillus, a beneficial bacterial species (magenta), attaches to specific regions (green) of the fruit fly gastrointestinal tract (white). Image is courtesy of Ren Dodge/Carnegie Science.

December 11, 2024

Could we engineer stability in the microbiome? New research opens the door

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November 22, 2024

Organizational News

Carnegie Science appoints John Mulchaey as its 12th President