Physicists are closing in on a strange, hidden influence that does not fit neatly into the four familiar forces of nature, and the search is reshaping how detectors are built and where they are ...

Physicists suggest that a single, extraordinarily powerful cosmic signal detected on Earth could be linked to the explosive ...

When the universe first burst into being, all of space was a cosmic cauldron filled with a roiling, fiery liquid of ...

A single subatomic particle that hit Earth in 2023 carried roughly 100,000 times more energy than anything humanity has ever ...

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

After 25 years, Brookhaven National Laboratory’s Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider—the U.S.’s largest particle collider—has ...

Trillions of neutrinos—nearly massless, neutrally charged particles—pass through us every second, but we only acknowledge ...

Science funding cuts in the UK are expected to be a "devastasting blow" for physics research, affecting international ...

In 2023, physicists detected something that should not have existed: a single subatomic particle called a neutrino carrying an almost unimaginable amount of energy. This particle slammed into Earth ...

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

Shell has paused investment in Kazakhstan amid wrangling between oil majors and the oil-rich Central Asian nation over legal ...

Humanity has worked itself into a position where we can detect a single high-energy particle from space and wonder where in Nature it came from. Billions of people likely don’t care at all about such ...