[Carnegie Institution for Science] The Sloan Digital Sky Survey V (SDSS-V) has announced its twentieth public data release (DR20), delivering a dramatic expansion of the Milky Way Mapper (MWM) scientific […]
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Naturally Occurring “Space Weather Station” Elucidates New Way To Study Habitability Of Planets Orbiting M Dwarf Stars
How does a star affect the makeup of its planets? And what does this mean for the habitability of distant worlds? Carnegie’s Luke Bouma is exploring a new way to […]
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Chemical Evidence Of Ancient Life Detected In 3.3 billion-year-old Rocks
Pairing cutting-edge chemistry with artificial intelligence, a multidisciplinary team of scientists today published fresh chemical evidence of Earth’s earliest life – concealed in 3.3-billion-year-old rocks – and molecular evidence that […]
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Experiments Show Water Creation During Planet Formation Process
Our galaxy’s most abundant type of planet could be rich in liquid water due to formative interactions between magma oceans and primitive atmospheres during their early years, according to new […]
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Isotope Research Shows That Our Solar System Formed From “Poorly Mixed Cake Batter”
Earth’s potassium arrived by meteoritic delivery service finds new research led by Carnegie’s Nicole Nie and Da Wang.
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Martian Meteorite Tissint Contains A Large Diversity Of Organic Compounds
The Martian meteorite Tissint contains a huge diversity of organic compounds, found an international team of researchers led by Technical University of Munich and Helmholtz Munich’s Philippe Schmitt-Kopplin and including […]
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A Catalog Of Earth’s Minerals Will Inform Models Of Life’s History And Extraterrestrial life
A 15-year study led by the Carnegie Institution for Science details the origins and diversity of every known mineral on Earth, a landmark body of work that will help reconstruct […]
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Uncovering An Evolutionary Process That Enabled Diversity Of Plant Life On Earth
About 1.2 billion years ago a blue-green bacterium was engulfed by a more complex cell, transforming our planet and allowing a tremendous diversity of plant life to emerge and continue […]
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Can Super-Earth Interior Dynamics Set The Table For Habitability?
New research led by Carnegie’s Yingwei Fei provides a framework for understanding the interiors of super-Earths–rocky exoplanets between 1.5 and 2 times the size of our home planet–which is a […]
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Would A Deep-Earth Water Cycle Change Our Understanding Of Planetary Evolution?
Every school child learns about the water cycle–evaporation, condensation, precipitation, and collection. But what if there were a deep Earth component of this process happening on geologic timescales that makes […]