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Cosmic fireworks from a new gamma-ray binary
November 13, 2018
A joint observational campaign with the MAGIC telescopes and the VERITAS array , has detected a new source emitting very-high-energy gamma rays from an unusual system consisting of a massive star and a pulsar
The First Telescope on a Cherenkov Telescope Array Site Makes its Debut
October 10, 2018
On Wednesday, 10 October 2018, more than 200 guests from around the world gathered on the northern array site of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) to celebrate the inauguration of the first prototype Large-Sized Telescope (LST).
First particle tracks seen in prototype for international neutrino experiment
September 18, 2018
The largest liquid-argon neutrino detector in the world has just recorded its first particle tracks, signaling the start of a new chapter in the story of the international Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE).
ATLAS observes elusive Higgs boson decay to a pair of bottom quarks
August 28, 2018
Six years after its discovery, the Higgs boson has at last been observed decaying to fundamental particles known as bottom quarks.
MAGIC telescopes trace origin of a rare cosmic neutrino
July 12, 2018
For the first time, astrophysicists have localized the source of a high energy cosmic neutrino originating outside the Milky Way. It is highly likely that the neutrino comes from a blazar in the Orion constellation.
ATLAS observes direct interaction of Higgs boson with top quark
June 4, 2018
New results from the ATLAS experiment at the LHC reveal how strongly the Higgs boson interacts with the heaviest known elementary particle, the top quark.
Dark Energy Survey publicly releases first three years of data
January 10, 2018
This first major release of data from the Survey includes information on about 400 million astronomical objects, including distant galaxies billions of light years away as well as stars in our own galaxy.
Scientists spot explosive counterpart of LIGO/Virgo’s latest gravitational waves
October 16, 2017
Scientists using the Dark Energy Camera have captured images of the aftermath of a neutron star collision, the source of LIGO/Virgo’s most recent gravitational wave detection
CTA Releases its Updated Science Case
September 27, 2017
The latest iteration of the Cherenkov Telescope Array's (CTA's) science case, Science with the Cherenkov Telescope Array, was made available today
