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Alycia Weinberger in front of Magellan Telescope — Alycia Weinberger and one of the twin 6.5-meter Magellan telescopes at Carnegie's Las Campanas Observatory in Chile.

May 19, 2023

Earth and Planets Laboratory Appoints Alycia Weinberger as Associate Director

This artist's concept is based on Hubble Space Telescope images of gas-and-dust disks around the young star TW Hydrae. Hubble Space Telescope photos show shadows sweeping across the disks encircling the system. Credit: NASA, AURA/STScI for ESA, Leah Hustak (STScI).

May 04, 2023

Peek-a-boo disk shows evidence of a previously unseen baby planet forming around young star

Water close-up courtesy of Unsplash

April 12, 2023

How did Earth get its water?

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 — This diamond anvil cell was crafted on-site in the EPL machine shop, saving scientists time and money on their high-pressure research. Photo Credit: Victor Lugo

March 06, 2023

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

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

An image of Jupiter from NASA’s JUNO spacecraft. NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill

February 10, 2023

Jupiter back on top as “moon king”

Chondrite image purchased from Shutterstock

January 26, 2023

Solar System formed from “poorly mixed cake batter,” isotope research shows

Tissint meteorite courtesy of Kurt Kracher, Museum of Natural History Vienna

January 11, 2023

Martian meteorite contains large diversity of organic compounds

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