Astrophysics and cosmology

The LSST Camera is being tested inside the clean room at SLAC

An enormous vat of pure liquid xenon will help scientists at SLAC and around the globe learn more about the universe.

A cosmologist, cultural historian, and neurosurgeon discuss how outer space and otherworldly phenomena can inspire discovery across disciplines and bring people together.

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.