The largest collaborative undertaking yet to explore the relic light emitted by the infant universe has taken a step forward with the U.S. Department of Energy's selection of Lawrence Berkeley ...

The largest collaborative undertaking yet to explore the relic light emitted by the infant universe has taken a step forward with the selection of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory to lead the U.S ...

The cosmic microwave background, or CMB, is the electromagnetic echo of the Big Bang, radiation that has been traveling through space and time since the very first atoms were born 380,000 years after ...

Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, or Fermilab, physicist James Strait has been selected as the next director for the Stage 4 Cosmic Microwave Background project, or CMB-S4, at Lawrence Berkeley ...

A team of scientists have demonstrated how to “weigh” galaxy clusters using light from the earliest moments of the universe—a new method that could help shed light on dark matter, dark energy and ...

The South Pole Telescope recently opened its third-generation camera for a multiyear survey. Deep in Antarctica, at the southernmost point on our planet, sits a 33-foot telescope designed for a single ...

The U.S. Department of Energy, or DOE, has selected Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, or Berkeley Lab, to be a part of one of the largest collaborative efforts taken to study the relic light ...