You can't see, feel, hear, taste or smell them, but tiny particles from space are constantly raining down on us.

"WIMPs are still the leading candidate for dark matter, but billions of dollars of experiments have been done, only getting ...

Exotic hypothetical particles known as axions could be produced inside a nuclear reactor, something The Big Bang Theory’s ...

An analysis of several experiments aimed at detecting the mysterious neutrino has identified a hint of a crack in the ...

In high-intensity laser–matter interactions, including laser-induced particle acceleration, physicists generally want to work ...

Our universe plays by certain rules, which originate from different branches of physics. But sometimes the rules seem ...

Spencer Axani, assistant professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, is the inventor of CosmicWatch, a portable, ...

The CosmicWatch device costs only $100 to make, making it accessible for both high school students and spacecraft operators.

A new discovery in physics can be exciting, but are scientists declaring quantum victory too soon? Many breakthroughs aren't ...

Inside high-energy proton collisions, quarks and gluons briefly form a dense, boiling state before cooling into ordinary ...

The Standard Model of our universe doesn’t match the evidence, in part because of dark energy, a ghostly force pushing the ...

New results from the MicroBooNE experiment rule out the existence of a sterile neutrino, reshaping how scientists think about ...