In 2023, Earth was struck by a subatomic particle so energetic that, on paper, it should not exist. The neutrino, calculated ...

For a mere moment after the Big Bang, no neutrons or protons are thought to have existed. These neutral and positively charged particles, respectively, make up the center of all atoms today. But ...

A new theory suggests the universe’s greatest secrets are hiding in a “zeptouniverse” that’s ready to be explored—without ...

A supercharged neutrino that smashed into our planet in 2023 may have been spit out by an exploding primordial black hole ...

The largest particle collider in the US, the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), has ...

The famed collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory has ended operations, but if all goes to plan, a new collider will rise ...

Everything we see around us, from the ground beneath our feet to the most remote galaxies, is made of matter. For scientists, that has long posed a problem: According to physicists’ best current ...

Tarantula nebula—a starforming region—seen by the James Webb Space Telescope. Credit: Nasa, ESA, CSA, STScI, Webb ERO Production Team, CC BY-SA Although our universe may seem stable, having existed ...

Using the world's most powerful particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider, scientists have found that the quark-gluon ...

Physicists have long believed that detecting the particle of gravity—the graviton—was fundamentally impossible, with the ...