Dark energy

KIPAC researchers mourn the loss of the Hitomi spacecraft but are thrilled about the data it was still able to capture.

Astronomers around the world are looking for visible sources of gravitational waves.

It will provide new insights into the physics of black holes, the formation of chemical elements, stars and galaxies, and the evolution of the universe itself.

Next-generation telescopic surveys will work hand-in-hand with supercomputers to study the nature of dark energy.

Fermi scientist Matthew Wood discusses major improvements to the Fermi Large Area Telescope, including increasing its sensitivity to the equivalent of launching another LAT.

It’s not easy being clean.

The DOE has approved the project’s scientific scope, schedule and funding. SLAC researchers are among the 200 physicists and astronomers who make up the international DESI Collaboration.

The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope’s ‘Eye’ Will be Built at SLAC.

Exploding stars have an immense capacity to destroy—and create.

Scientists on the Dark Energy Survey, using one of the world’s most powerful digital cameras, have discovered eight more faint celestial objects hovering near our Milky Way galaxy.

Our universe could be just one small piece of a bubbling multiverse.