JPL has been selected by the European Space Agency to lead the U.S. science team for the Euclid mission, a space telescope designed to probe the mysteries of dark energy and dark matter scheduled to launch in 2020. Pasadena, California — The European Space Agency (ESA) has selected three NASA-nominated science teams to participate in [...]

Physicists have been able to create an atomic gas that can attain a temperature below absolute zero, -273.15˚C. They were able to create this gas using negative-Kelvin materials and new quantum devices. The scientists published their findings in the journal Science¹. The absolute temperature scale dates back to Lord Kelvin, who created it in the [...]

An international team of scientists are measuring the role of dark energy in the evolution of the universe by using a new mapping technique that uses quasars to probe dark energy over 10 billion years in the past. BOSS, the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey, is mapping a huge volume of space to measure the role [...]

In the cavernous area of Building 1230, located at the ITT Exelis facility in Rochester, New York, there are two 2.4-meter telescopes, each as big as the Hubble Space Telescope and never flown, sitting on low pedestals. These telescopes were commissioned by the US National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), a surveillance agency that needed the telescope [...]

The advent of the Mira supercomputer, along with more powerful Sequoia and K supercomputers, marks the first time that computers have enough computational power to simulate trillions of particles on the move, running a simulation of the Universe. Mira can process quadrillions of operations every second, which is rare in the machine world. It will [...]