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

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

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, ...

Using muon spin rotation spectroscopy, researchers from Japan and Canada have successfully captured the rapid conversion of ...

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

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

Since Einstein, physicists have found that certain entities can reach superluminal (that means "faster-than-light") speeds and still follow the cosmic rules laid down by special relativity.

Now, two unrelated-but-similar experiments confirm that, in a double-slit experiment, detection of a photon’s path (its ...

Scientists are a step closer to solving one of the universe’s biggest mysteries as new research finds evidence that two of ...

Wu designed and executed an experiment that questioned — and then disproved — the infallibility of parity. After freezing a ...