Space dust provides more than just awe-inspiring pictures like the Pillars of Creation. It can provide the necessary materials to build everything from planets to asteroids. But what it actually looks ...

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

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

String theory unifies all the forces of nature. Forces that seem very different, such as gravity and electricity, are deeply ...

Collaborative experiments focus on uncovering the unusual properties of the ghost particle. In a recent study, physicists have created the clearest and most detailed view so far of how neutrinos shift ...

A new theory claims dark matter and dark energy don’t exist — they’re just side effects of the universe’s changing forces. By ...

Scientists have detected complex organic ices around a young star in the Large Magellanic Cloud, marking the first such discovery beyond the Milky Way ...

In a rare global collaboration, scientists from Japan and the United States joined forces to explore one of the universe’s ...

Theorists have found that a “warm” version of cosmic inflation is consistent with known physics, linking it to the hunt for dark matter ...

Quantum mechanics predicts that particles can exist in multiple states at once — a phenomenon explained by the many-worlds ...