Scientists propose a bold new dark matter candidate: the superheavy, charged gravitino, detectable in experiments like JUNO and DUNE.

Physicists predict the universe’s expansion will reverse, ending in a dramatic big crunch about 20 billion years from now.

Members of the STAR collaboration, a group of physicists collecting and analyzing data from particle collisions at the ...

For more than three decades, the scientific consensus on the composition of the universe has rested on a foundation both elegant and perplexing: that roughly 95% of all that exists is made up of ...

Particle physics is the study of the elementary building blocks of matter and radiation and their interaction. The fundamental particles are summarised by the standard model. This includes leptons ...

New research suggests dark matter may be a cosmic illusion caused by evolving natural forces, reshaping our understanding of ...

It was in the 17th century that Christiaan Huygens and Giovanni Cassini first revealed Saturn’s stunning rings, changing the way people understood the distant planet. Hundreds of years later, NASA’s ...

On the edge of California's Monterey Bay, ecologist Matthew Savoca and a team of volunteers sift through sand and seawater ...

Steel has underpinned modern life for centuries, but it comes at an expensive cost. The industry is responsible for nearly 7 ...

Cosmic dust, it turns out, isn’t made of miniature rocks. It’s fluff. A comprehensive analysis of data from space missions, ...

A clever mathematical tool known as virtual particles unlocks the strange and mysterious inner workings of subatomic particles. What happens to these particles within atoms would stay unexplained ...

A study published in Journal of Railway Science and Technology developed a class of polymer fiber-reinforced concrete that ...