Washington, DC— The U.S. National Science Foundation is advancing the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT), under construction at Carnegie Science’s Las Campanas Observatory, into a critical new stage of ...

The U.S. Mint released a quarter into nationwide circulation commemorating the late Carnegie Science astronomer Vera Rubin’s trailblazing contributions to our understanding of the universe as part of ...

What do you get when you mix stardust, rock samples, and a dozen bright undergrads? Every summer, the Carnegie Science Earth and Planets Laboratory transforms into a training ground for the next ...

Ocean acidification threatens many marine organisms, especially marine calcifiers. The only global-scale solution to ocean acidification remains rapid reduction in CO2 emissions. Nevertheless, ...

Two extrasolar planets, HD 209458b and TrES-1, are currently known to transit bright parent stars for which physical properties can be accurately determined. The two transiting planets have very ...

Using observations obtained with the Wide-Field Camera 3 on board the Hubble Space Telescope, we have studied the properties of the stellar populations in the central regions of 30 Dor in the Large ...

Long before Carnegie astronomer Vera Rubin was awarded the National Medal of Science in 1993, the scientific community had come to understand her groundbreaking contributions to our understanding of ...

Table 2 . The four vectors currently available with the 17 Gateway/Tag modules. The 17 modules are currently available in four different vectors ().The Actin5C- and Hsp70-based vectors (Huynh and ...

GMTNIRS, the Giant Magellan Telescope Near-Infrared Spectrograph, is a high resolution (R = 65,000 - 80,000) nearinfrared spectrograph selected as a first-generation instrument for the Giant Magellan ...