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NOIRLab observing specialists Carlos Morales (left) and Karla Peña (right) in the Rubin summit control room at Rubin’s mountaintop site of Cerro Pachón, Chile.

Remote eyes on the sky: Inside SLAC’s Rubin control room

09/23/25

Gaëlle Suter

With survey operations set to begin this fall, the Rubin control room at SLAC will serve as a key hub for training and remote observing support for the NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory.

12/06/16

Deep learning takes on physics

Can the same type of technology Facebook uses to recognize faces also recognize particles?

12/02/16

Viewing our turbulent universe

Construction has begun for the CTA, a discovery machine that will study the highest energy objects and events across the entire sky.

Group of students sitting on the floor talking

11/29/16

Hacking for humanity

THE Port humanitarian hackathon at CERN brings people from multiple industries together to make the world a better place.

11/17/16

Q&A: What more can we learn about the Higgs?

Four physicists discuss Higgs boson research since the discovery.

Scientists walking up stairs to cube floating in sky "the future of scientists computing"

11/15/16

What to do with the data?

Physicists and scientific computing experts prepare for an onslaught of petabytes.

Detectives looking for superhero dark matter man

11/08/16

The origins of dark matter

Theorists think dark matter was forged in the hot aftermath of the Big Bang.

Green and yellow chameleon blending into background

11/03/16

Is there a dark energy particle?

A theoretical particle that adapts to its surroundings could explain the accelerating expansion of our universe.

Image chat with of Leonardo Senatore, Ask Symmetry Twitter

10/31/16

In search of a parallel universe

What are parallel universes, and why do we think they might exist?

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