Thirty years ago, astronomers began to discover planets around other stars -- exoplanets -- and sparked a scientific revolution. Today we remain in its throes. Our most advanced telescopes on ...

What if Mars once hosted life? That’s the big question Anushree Srivastava is helping to answer. As an astrobiologist, she studies some of the most extreme environments on Earth—like Arctic impact ...

In 1983, at the age of 81, Barbara McClintock received the news that would cement her place in scientific history. She had won a solo Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for her discovery of ...

John C. Lin, Associate Director, Wilkes Center for Climate Science & Policy and Professor, Department of Atmospheric Sciences at The University of Utah. Michalak lab hosts his seminar John Lin is a ...

From distinguished researchers to our essential support staff, our community is united by a shared drive for discovery. We are dedicated to nurturing a diverse range of talents at every career stage, ...

The origin of the Earth and Moon is one of science’s greatest mystery stories, complete with false starts and dead ends. The Apollo missions shattered all the previous ideas about making the Moon. But ...

Drawing on more than a century of science, our multidisciplinary department discovers exoplanets, creates new materials, illuminates Earth's inner workings, and seeks to better understand the universe ...

From telescopes redefining the cosmos to space robotics, lunar living, and AI-powered astronomy, this year’s SXSW lineup is packed with mind-expanding sessions for astronomy lovers, sci-fi enthusiasts ...

In 1903, just one year after Carnegie Science’s founding, the Desert Laboratory was established on Tumamoc Hill outside Tucson, Arizona. This boundary pushing, interdisciplinary facility was devoted ...

Mercedes López-Morales, an astronomer at the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, will give a talk titled “Breaking Through Exoplanetary Atmospheres” at 11 a.m. on Thursday, July 21, 2016, in ...

The new frontier in exoplanet research is the characterization of low-mass exoplanets now that their masses and radii are routinely measured. With these observations, the first task is to determine ...