Researchers use multi-anvil press to turn fullerene C60 into diamond glass, similar to the process of converting graphite to diamond in high-pressure apparatus. Credit: Image…
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Image of Neptune taken by NASA’s Voyager 2 mission. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Probing the structures and properties of superionic ice. A layer of “hot,” electrically conductive…
An artist’s conception of the newly discovered asteroid 2021 PH27, which has the shortest known orbital period for an asteroid and second shortest for any…
An artist’s impression of a flare from Proxima Centauri, modeled after the loops of glowing hot gas seen in the largest solar flares. An artist’s…
This cartoon shows a subducting oceanic plate traveling like a conveyor belt from the surface down to the lower mantle. The white arrows show the…
An illustration showing how a combination of static high-pressure synthesis techniques and dynamic methods enabled the researchers to probe the magnesium silicate bridgmanite, believed to…
An artist’s conception of the most-distant known astrophysical object — GN-z11, a galaxy 13.4 billion light-years from Earth — depicted with a gamma-ray burst like…
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey’s fifth generation made its first observations earlier this month. This image shows a sampling of data from those first SDSS-V…
New work led by Carnegie’s Matt Clement reveals the likely original locations of Saturn and Jupiter. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute Where were Jupiter and Saturn…
The universe’s first structure originated when some of the material flung outward by the Big Bang overcame its trajectory and collapsed on itself, forming clumps.…
An artist’s conception of Piro and Vissapragada’s model of a ringed planet transiting in front of its host star. They used these models to constrain…
An artist’s concept of GJ180d, which is the nearest temperate super-Earth to us that is not tidally locked to its star, making it more likely…
The bipartite sodalite type clathrate structure, which consists of truncated octahedral “host” cages that trap strontium “guest” atoms, was synthesized under high-pressure and high-temperature conditions…
First seen by the Cassini mission to Saturn, Enceladus’ “tiger stripes” are like nothing else known in our Solar System. Credit: NASA, ESA, JPL, SSI,…
An ancient gas cloud discovered by a team led including recent Carnegie-Princeton fellow Eduardo Bañados and Carnegie’s Michael Rauch and Tom Cooper formed just 850…
Lago de Cahora Bassa in Mozambique was one of the lakes that Ho, Michalak, and Pahlevan’s study of the intensity of lakewater algal blooms showed…
This is an artist’s conception of the 20 newly discovered moons orbiting Saturn. These discoveries bring the planet’s total moon count to 82, surpassing Jupiter…
After passing too close to a supermassive black hole, the star in this artist’s conception is torn apart into a thin stream of gas, which…
After passing too close to a supermassive black hole, the star in this artist’s conception is torn apart into a thin stream of gas, which…