On July 4, 2012, researchers at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Switzerland announced with great fanfare that they had ...

Physicists show knotted cosmic strings may have dominated the early universe before collapsing to create matter—a theory ...

If these knots had a slight bias toward matter over antimatter, their unraveling could help explain the matter-antimatter ...

How did the universe come into being? There are a multitude of theories on this subject. In a Physical Review Letters paper, ...

Ghost particles' can zoom through you without a trace. Scientists are getting to the bottom of this cosmic mystery ...

Researchers suggest that dark matter might subtly color light red or blue as it passes through, revealing traces of its ...

Such an exponential expansion may seem minor, but it is equivalent to a grape in the palm of your hand swelling to become ...

There is a limit to how big we can build particle colliders on Earth, whether that is because of limited space or limited ...

For over a decade, a dim but persistent glow near the center of the Milky Way has confused astronomers. This mysterious ...

The hyperfine structure of radium monofluoride has been measured by researchers in the US and elsewhere with such precision ...

A gamma ray glow at our galaxy’s center has puzzled scientists for almost two decades. New computer simulations back the ...