New work from an international team of astronomers including Carnegie’s Gregory Walth improves our understanding of the most-distant known astrophysical object — GN-z11, a galaxy…
Toward a New Understanding of the Cosmos: First Light on a Next-Gen Astronomical Survey The Sloan Digital Sky Survey’s fifth generation collected its very first…
Where were Jupiter and Saturn born? New work led by Carnegie’s Matt Clement reveals the likely original locations of Saturn and Jupiter. These findings refine…
“Stellar archeology” reveals a star stream composed of the remnants of an ancient globular cluster that was torn apart by the Milky Way’s gravity 2…
A direct, observation-based test of one of the pillars of cosmology. The universe is full of billions of galaxies — but their distribution across space…
Some of the extremely low-density, “cotton candy like” exoplanets called super-puffs may actually have rings, according to new research published in The Astronomical Journal by…
A “cold Neptune” and two potentially habitable worlds are part of a cache of five newly discovered exoplanets and eight exoplanet candidates found orbiting nearby…
‘Superdiamond’ Carbon-Boron Cages Can Trap and Tap Into Different Properties A long-sought-after class of “superdiamond” carbon-based materials with tunable mechanical and electronic properties was predicted…
How Enceladus Got Its Stripes New research reveals the physics governing the fissures through which ocean water erupts from the moon’s icy surface. Saturn’s icy…
The discovery of a 13 billion-year-old cosmic cloud of gas enabled a team of Carnegie astronomers to perform the earliest-ever measurement of how the universe…
Astronomers see gestating baby planets, reveal the source of their formative atmospheres. What does a gestating baby planet look like? New research in Nature by…
Climate Change Is Likely Hampering Recovery Efforts The intensity of summer algal blooms has increased over the past three decades, according to a first-ever global…
Move over Jupiter; Saturn is the new moon king. A team led by Carnegie’s Scott S. Sheppard has found 20 new moons orbiting Saturn. This…
NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has for the first time seen the aftermath of a star that was violently ripped apart by a supermassive…
There is an as-yet-unseen population of Jupiter-like planets orbiting nearby Sun-like stars, awaiting discovery by future missions. Washington, DC — There is an as-yet-unseen population…
For the first time, astronomers have witnessed the immediate aftermath of a star being violently ripped apart by a supermassive black hole. The observations were…
A team of astronomers has discovered the most-distant body ever observed in our Solar System. It is the first known Solar System object that has…
New work from Carnegie’s Jonathan Gagné and the American Museum of Natural History’s Jacqueline Faherty identified nearly a thousand potential members and 31 confirmed members…
