There's a significant imbalance between matter and antimatter in our universe, but a strange particle called "the Majoron" ...

Since the start of the 20th century, physicists have discovered a veritable zoo of subatomic particles. Matter can be both ...

Scientists have come a step closer to understanding how collisionless shock waves -- found throughout the universe -- are able to accelerate particles to extreme speeds.

One of the most puzzling questions in modern cosmology is why the universe is filled with matter in the first place. The problem is that almost all fundamental particle reactions produce exact ...

Astrophysical bow shocks and other multiscale phenomena work like cosmic particle accelerators to launch electrons to ...

Engineers escorted a 209,000-pound cooler into its new home at Fermilab in Batavia, as part of a new particle accelerator project aiming to better understand the building blocks of the universe.

This is called the “heat death” of the Universe, but you can think of it instead as the death of heat. There will be no more ...

A new analysis of data from the PHENIX experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) reveals fresh evidence that ...