Cross-disciplinary, Collaborative & Boundary Pushing:
Carnegie Experts Investigate the planets found in our Solar System, as well as those orbiting distant stars.

Earth & Planets Laboratory
EPL astronomers aim to discover and understand solar and extrasolar planets through pioneering detection studies, observations of their nebular birthplaces, modeling of their formation and evolution, and using the detection of small bodies in the outer Solar System to understand the origin of our own planetary system.
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Observatories
Exoplanet science at the Carnegie Observatories exists at an especially exciting nexus of theoretical astrophysics, observational astronomy, and instrument development.
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There should be more carbon monoxide present in planet-forming disks than astronomers can see. A huge chunk of it is missing from observations.
Material returned to Earth from a primitive asteroid offers unique insight into the chemical makeup of the building blocks from which our Solar System was formed.
The first of six projects led by Carnegie-affiliated astronomers will use the James Webb Space Telescope to make some of the most-accurate measurements ever taken of the chemistry of very early galaxies.