Featured Staff Member
Peter Gao focuses on the physics and chemistry of planetary atmospheres within and beyond the Solar System and what they can tell us about planetary origins and habitability.
Scott Sheppard
Earth & Planets Laboratory
Carnegie Science Observatories
Help Us Choose Our 2026 Holiday Card!
Object 18 | Robert S. Woodward Portrait
Carnegie Science Summer Swag Drop
I feel passionately about the power of nonprofits to bolster healthy communities.
Postdoctoral alumna Jo Ann Eder is committed to making the world a better place by supporting organizations, like Carnegie, that create and foster STEM learning opportunities for all.
Found: Oldest known planet-forming disk
New low-mass objects could help refine planetary evolution
Brown dwarfs hiding in plain sight in our solar neighborhood
Found: surviving evidence of Earth’s formative years
New tool refines exoplanet search
Young, unattached Jupiter analog found in solar neighborhood
Mercury’s Mysterious “Darkness” Revealed
Surprise: Stretchy Slabs in Deep Earth
The Giant Magellan Telescope Organization Breaks Ground in Chile
A distant planet's interior chemistry may differ from our own
Subscribe to our newsletters.