Two huge metal rings, each more than two miles around. Gold ions smashing together at more than 99.99 percent the speed of ...

"Precision in these measurements is critical, as even subtle discrepancies could signal deviations from the model — potentially revealing new physics." ...

Researchers have discovered that not all atoms in a liquid are in motion and that some remain stationary regardless of the ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captures the magnificent starry population of the Coma Cluster of galaxies, one of the densest known galaxy collections in the universe — and where the effect of dark ...

Describing matter under extreme conditions, such as those found inside neutron stars, remains an unsolved problem. The ...

New research reveals that Earth’s solid inner core is actually in a superionic state, where carbon atoms flow freely through ...

A mysterious excess of far-ultraviolet light seen across the Milky Way could come from the annihilation of clumpy dark matter ...

Physicists are now watching matter behave in a way that defies everyday intuition, with atoms and even light itself arranging ...

Nearly a century after astronomers first proposed dark matter to explain the strange motions of galaxies, scientists may finally be catching a glimpse of it. A University of Tokyo researcher analyzing ...

A NASA telescope may have detected evidence of dark matter, enabling it to be “‘seen” for the first time. Since dark matter was conceptualized nearly 100 years ago by Swiss astronomer Fritz Zwicky, ...

University of Bristol provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation UK. University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau provides funding as a member of The Conversation NZ. University of ...

Now is a surreal time to be a dark matter researcher. Even as research funding is being cut by governments around the world, dark matter remains one of the biggest and most exciting open problems in ...