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.

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

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

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

With a project of this size—around 800 miles long, to be precise—other discoveries are also possible. In fact, a recently ...

One of the most famous paradoxes ever, the grandfather paradox, cautions against making changes that could break the timeline ...

Using a machine learning technique to analyse the decay products of the nuclei produced in these collisions, the ALICE team ...

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 ...

Scientists have come a step closer to understanding how collisionless shock waves—found throughout the universe—are able to ...

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

Merminga was the first woman to lead Fermilab, a physics research facility that’s home to an advanced particle accelerator, ...

After decades of study, scientists sound genuinely optimistic about the possibility of detecting primordial black holes, which might explain dark matter.