Astrophysics and cosmology

Studying a material that even more closely resembles the composition of ice giants, researchers found that oxygen boosts the formation of diamond rain.

An extension of the Stanford Research Computing Facility will host several data centers to handle the unprecedented data streams that will be produced by a new generation of scientific projects.

They’ll work on experiments that search for dark matter particles and exotic neutrino decays that could help explain why there’s more matter than antimatter in the universe.

The leaders of SLAC's Technology Innovation Directorate discuss how their group supports the lab's most innovative projects.

The Rubin Observatory's LSST Camera will take enormously detailed images of the night sky from atop a mountain in Chile. Down below the mountain, high-speed computers will send the data out into the world. What happens in between?

Researchers mimicked these extreme impacts in the lab and discovered new details about how they transform minerals in Earth’s crust.

DESI has already mapped out more galaxies than all previous 3D surveys combined, and it's just getting started.

Through her work with this nationwide program, Curry plans to make high-power laser facilities more accessible to researchers.

Managing the unprecedented amount of data that will soon stream from Rubin Observatory means more than buying tons of hard drives. SLAC scientist Richard Dubois explains what will go into Rubin’s U.S. data facility.

A new analysis of the South Pole-based telescope’s cosmic microwave background observations has all but ruled out several popular models of inflation.

High-power lasers will work in concert with the lab’s X-ray laser to dramatically improve our understanding of matter in extreme conditions.

Their work helps reveal the inner workings of cells and the behavior of matter under extreme pressures and temperatures.