High-energy cosmic rays, 10 million times more powerful than particles accelerated in Earth's strongest atom smasher, may hide a superheavy secret that is the key to unlocking a 60-year-old puzzle.

Physicists know that their elegant theoretical description of forces and particles — the standard model of particle physics — must be incomplete, because there are a host of phenomena it cannot ...

A major physics experiment has uncovered evidence for a strange new form of matter, where a fleeting particle gets trapped inside a nucleus. This exotic state may reveal how mass is generated, ...

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Physicists have taken a major step toward using AI not just to analyze data, but to uncover entirely new laws of nature. By combining a specially designed neural network with precise 3D tracking of ...

Skylar Buttler, a 2026 20 Twenties winner from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, shares her journey in astrophysics and advice on perseverance in aerospace. Butler's research encompasses planetary ...

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CERN’s Super Proton Synchrotron has a resonant “ghost.” Using mathematics, physicists measured and modeled how these resonant lines intersect. Modeling a 3D shape over time requires a 4D system of ...

A new study suggests that decaying dark matter may have helped create the universe’s first supermassive black holes much earlier than expected. The idea could explain why these massive objects show up ...