Which way is ‘down’ has a different answer depending on where you are on Earth, in the solar system, in our galaxy and beyond ...

Scientists at Fermilab’s MicroBooNE experiment have ruled out the existence of the elusive sterile neutrino, a particle proposed for decades to explain puzzling neutrino behavior. Their high-precision ...

Wordle is a daily word puzzle where players attempt to guess a five-letter secret word within six tries. Each guess provides feedback on letter placement: letters in the correct position are ...

Physicists are increasingly entertaining a radical possibility: our familiar universe of three dimensions of space and one of ...

Inside the Large Hadron Collider, protons slam together at nearly the speed of light, creating a brief fireball of quarks and ...

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

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

The particle in question, known as a sterile neutrino, was supposed to only interact with gravity and have zero interactions ...

An international team led by Chinese astronomers has unveiled a new image of the supermassive black hole at the center of elliptical galaxy Messier 87, or M87, featuring its accretion disk and the ...

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