Inside the Large Hadron Collider, protons slam together at nearly the speed of light, creating a brief fireball of quarks and ...

Green aurora can be seen dancing in Earth 's upper atmosphere as the zodiacal light fades, shimmering between the profiles of ...

Astronomers working with the Hubble Space Telescope have identified an entirely new type of cosmic object. It is a cloud rich ...

Our universe plays by certain rules, which originate from different branches of physics. But sometimes the rules seem ...

"WIMPs are still the leading candidate for dark matter, but billions of dollars of experiments have been done, only getting ...

Since Einstein, physicists have found that certain entities can reach superluminal (that means "faster-than-light") speeds and still follow the cosmic rules laid down by special relativity.

Spencer Axani, assistant professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, is the inventor of CosmicWatch, a portable, ...

Exotic hypothetical particles known as axions could be produced inside a nuclear reactor, something The Big Bang Theory’s ...

The particle in question, known as a sterile neutrino, was supposed to only interact with gravity and have zero interactions ...

An atom is the smallest unit of an element that retains its chemical properties. It is made of protons, neutrons, and electrons. (Image: M ...

For the first time since it was sealed around 4,500 years ago, scientists have peered into a hidden passage inside the Great ...