New research reveals how ghost particles may break the universe’s symmetry, offering clues to why matter—and life—exist at all.

Having good neighbors can be very valuable—even in the atomic world. A team of Amsterdam physicists was able to determine an ...

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

According to the model, dark matter may have started as particles that were hot, light, massless, and fast. As the universe cooled, these particles became heavy, slow, and dark, becoming an invisible ...

According to the laws of physics, matter and antimatter behave the same way and were formed in equal quantities in the Big ...

This achievement makes India capable of quantum computing using the different properties of light-based particles, instead of ...

Neutron stars, these cosmic remnants resulting from the catastrophic explosion of massive stars, represent one of the most ...

To capture ghostly subatomic particles ... these very weird particles,” said Aart Heijboer, a senior physicist at the Dutch National Institute for Subatomic Physics, who helped design the telescope.

String theory attempts to unify all forces and particles in the universe using vibrating strings. It aims to explain the Standard Model of particle physics, which is incomplete. String theory predicts ...

As far as particles of light are concerned, the collective is more important than the individual. When they get to decide ...