The NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory, a major new scientific facility jointly funded by the US National Science Foundation and the US Department of Energy's Office of Science, released its first ...

Next week, physicists will meet in Venice to discuss the future of European particle physics research. Early in his career, ...

Looking up at the stars at night, it may not be obvious that the universe is constantly changing. But it is: Stars are dying; comets are flying; and supermassive black holes are growing ever more ...

Near miss ALICE is designed to study quark-gluon plasma, the hottest and densest form of matter in the universe. “Ultimately, we're trying to understand how matter behaves at the most extreme ...

Getting there Before building the DUNE detectors, scientists must test and validate their technology. Scientists at European research center CERN have taken on this task by building and operating a ...

Inside an ordinary-looking cupboard in an ordinary-looking office, scientists at CERN store a small glass vial filled with 10 grams of lead. But this is no ordinary metal. The lead in this vial is ...

In the late 1890s, physicist Max Planck proposed a set of units to simplify the expression of physics laws. Using just five constants in nature (including the speed of light and the gravitational ...

Outweighing regular matter by a factor of five, but so far invisible to scientists’ experiments, dark matter is (literally) one of the biggest mysteries in our universe. A podcast from the ...

In the beginning, a spaceship called the Yggdrasil is sailing through the cosmos to find a new home for its long-term inhabitants. Suddenly, the ship is hit by a stray asteroid, damaging the hydrogen ...

At the start of the 20th century, physicists had a problem: The speed of light was always the speed of light. If you threw a baseball out of a train going 20 mph, it would travel the speed at which ...

With enough time and magnifying power, a telescope can gather all the light it needs to create a pretty complete portrait of a single, distant galaxy. But some scientists are opting for a more ...