In 2023, a subatomic particle smashed into the Mediterranean Sea with enough energy to rattle the foundations of physics. The ...

Close-up observations of the Sun explain how solar flares start, grow, and send high-energy particles racing through space.

Launched on Dec. 20, it would travel for the next 23 days on a NASA balloon along the very highest reaches of the atmosphere, ...

Spin correlations within a particle collider may help crack one of the biggest mysteries known, said physicist Zhoudunming Tu ...

Cosmic rays are extremely fast, charged particles that travel through space at nearly the speed of light. The Amaterasu ...

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A record-breaking neutrino detection in 2023 may mark the first time humans witnessed a primordial black hole exploding, and these ancient objects could be the dark matter holding galaxies together.

Quantum physics paints a strange picture of the world, one filled with spooky connections, unsettling uncertainties ...

Where starlight doesn't reach, new things are born: For the first time, an international research team has directly measured ...

Earth, it turns out, is far from naked in space. New measurements reveal that our planet sits inside a faint but global ...

A deep-sea neutrino telescope has detected the most energetic neutrino ever recorded. The particle, known as a "ghost particle," was about 30 times more active than the previous record-holder.

Physicists provide a viable and testable explanation for how UHECRs are created. Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Rays are the highest-energy particles in the universe, whose energies are more than a million ...