In an article for Science, Carnegie scientists ponder on which of Earth’s features were essential for the origin and sustenance of life and how scientists identify those features on other worlds.

The Peter Driscoll/Sally June Tracy project is an interdisciplinary opportunity for an early career materials physicist, Tracy, to work with an early career geodynamicist, Driscoll, and for a postdoc to gain expertise in both fields using novel high-pressure techniques that inform new models.

New research by a group of geoscientists from Carnegie, the Gemological Institute of America, and the University of Alberta demonstrates that diamonds can be used to reveal how a buoyant section of mantle beneath some of the continents became thick enough to provide long-term stability.

A nearby system hosts the first Earth-sized planet discovered by NASA’s Transiting Exoplanets Survey Satellite, as well as a warm sub-Neptune-sized world, according to a new paper from a team of astronomers that includes Carnegie’s Johanna Teske, Paul Butler, Steve Shectman, Jeff Crane, and Sharon Wang.

The workshop allowed scientists across Carnegie a chance to meet to deepen and develop Carnegie Science's research plans in the area of planetary and exoplanetary habitability.

Peter Driscoll answers some questions about his latest research and why studying the geodynamo is critical to understanding the history of our planet.

Astronomer Alycia Weinberger talks about circumstellar disks, the importance of curiosity, and what it means to seize the opportunities life throws our way.