US DOE selects Berkeley Lab to lead DOE efforts on joint DOE/NSF experiment combining observatories at the South Pole and in Chile's high desert DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory The largest ...

A new analysis of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation, the famous “echo” of the Big Bang, has revealed strange anomalies that may challenge the popular “inflation” model of the early ...

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 hot Big Bang might have started our Universe as we know it some 13.8 billion years ago, but there's a piece of it still visible to us today. Because the "bang" happened everywhere at once, there's ...

Scientists are reeling from an unexpected blow after news that a much anticipated future observatory—designed to decipher the earliest moments of cosmic history—won’t be able to proceed with its ...