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Images from the night of 2025 SC79’s discovery showing its motion relative to background stars. Photographs courtesy of Scott S. Sheppard.

October 16, 2025

Fast-moving asteroid found in Sun’s glare

Artist's conception of moon-forming environment. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Gabriele Cugno (University of Zürich, NCCR PlanetS), Sierra Grant (Carnegie Institution for Science), Joseph Olmsted (STScI), Leah Hustak (STScI)

September 29, 2025

Press Release

Astronomers get first-ever peek into a gas giant’s moon-forming environment

Mars

September 18, 2025

Q&A

Q&A: Perseverance Rover finds a rock with "leopard spots"

A researcher conducting fieldwork at the Slave Craton, Canada

TIMES Kickoff Workshop

Jennifer Kasbohm

Washington, DC

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Maggie Thompson

September 17, 2024

Awards

Carnegie Science’s Maggie Thompson recognized for “unusually important” Ph.D. thesis research

This pile of lava flows is part of the Grande Ronde Basalt, the most voluminous formation of the Columbia River Basalt Group (Photo credit: Jennifer Kasbohm).

September 20, 2024

Feature Story

Probing the role of volcanism in ancient climate warming

Conel Alexander

August 16, 2024

Awards

Carnegie Science dominates the Meteoritical Society awards

August 16, 2024

Organizational News

Isotope geochemist Andrea Giuliani joins Carnegie Science as new Staff Scientist

NASA’s Perseverance rover discovered “leopard spots” on a reddish rock nicknamed “Cheyava Falls” in Mars’ Jezero Crater in July 2024. Scientists think the spots may indicate that, billions of years ago, the chemical reactions in this rock could have supported microbial life; other explanations are being considered. NASA/JPL-Caltech

August 09, 2024

Q&A

Q&A: "Intriguing" Martian rock discovered by rover

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