DragonflyPol turns the Dragonfly Telephoto Array — 48 stacked Canon camera lenses — into a wide-field polarization camera.

We asked 100 scientists about unsolved problems in their fields. They sent back provocations — on the origins of life, the possibilities for human progress and much more.

It’s far too early to declare a discovery, physicists with the LZ detector say

A SLAC-led experiment more than a mile beneath a Canadian mine has begun collecting early scientific data ahead of a full-sensitivity search next year.

YouTube video by KIPAC

We investigate analytically and numerically the interaction of strong electromagnetic waves with unmagnetized pair plasmas. We show that the interaction is governed by a single nonlinearity parameter,...

A study led by KIPAC members and using Fermi/LAT data has uncovered compelling evidence that two neighboring supernova remnants (SNRs), the debris left behind after stars explode, are actually the rem...

The highly competitive NASA Hubble Fellowship Program (NHFP) recently named 24 new fellows to its 2026 class.

The first in our 2026 lecture series kicked off with a sold out event at the College of San Mateo Planetarium

How did the Universe begin, and how do we know? Join us to learn how galaxies reveal clues about the origin of the cosmos!

YouTube video by Bernardita Ried

Leveraging complementary scientific skillsets across the Kavli Institutes

☄️ Say hello to Comet 3I/ATLAS as seen by NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory! Comet 3I/ATLAS is just the third interstellar object ever spotted in our Solar System. Rubin Observatory didn’t discover it, but…

On the enduring legacies of Carrie Fisher and Vera Rubin.

YouTube video by PBS Space Time

Join us to celebrate and learn about the first images from the Rubin Observatory talks at Science Today.

The Rubin Observatory sits on the summit of Cerro Pachón in Chile, with the digital camera scanning the sky to create an ultra-wide, ultra-high definition timelapse of our universe

Podcast Episode · The Headlines · 06/24/2025 · 9m

More than 20 years ago, Stanford and SLAC launched the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, setting in motion a chain of events that helped bring the Legacy Survey of Space and Tim...

Over the next decade, the Vera C. Rubin observatory, equipped with a giant camera built at SLAC in Menlo Park, will find billions of new stars, galaxies and asteroids, and shed light on dark matter an...

Two decades ago, Stanford and SLAC took a gamble on an unproven telescope design that had no funding, no home, and no official backing. Now, with first images in hand and full operations on the horizo...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is expected to discover 20 billion new galaxies over the next decade.

Two decades ago, Stanford and SLAC took a gamble on an unproven telescope design that had no funding, no home, and no official backing. Now, with first images in hand and full operations on the horizo...