The first test images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile showcase thousands of previously unknown asteroids and ...

The Rubin Observatory’s key goal is the 10-year Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), a sweeping, near-constant observation of space. This endeavor will yield 60 petabytes of data on the ...

One of the world’s most powerful lasers can soon begin peering deeper into the atomic world thanks to recent, cutting-edge X-ray upgrades. Stanford’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory has ...

SLAC has over 1,600 employees, including 60 members of Stanford’s faculty and many graduate students. The underground accelerator was built in the 1960s to do research on particle physics.

The most powerful pulse of X-rays ever reported has been produced at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in California. In only 440 billionths of a billionth of a second, or attoseconds, it ...

SLAC is one of 17 DOE-supported national laboratories in the U.S., and each one is affiliated in some way with a university, but Dunne said that the depth of SLAC’s partnership with Stanford in ...

In a public lecture, SLAC fellow Chelsea Bartram presented how she uses radio waves to find dark matter axions. The axion is key to understanding a hypothetical structure of the universe.