The 10 students on the Centaurus team, who have dubbed themselves “Team Centauri Stars,” will travel in August to a lab in ...

It was a journey to the center of the Earth, if only for the briefest of moments. But rather than tunneling thousands of ...

Buried deep underground, this extraordinary machine has already transformed humanity's understanding of the universe.

As the Large Hadron Collider switches off its beams for a four-year overhaul, the question is no longer what it has found but whether anything bigger is worth building ...

The one thing we all 'know' about black holes is that nothing escapes their ineluctable grasp. That is mostly true – but ...

The question of how gravity interacts with the quantum world has long perplexed physicists, but a non-quantum theory of space ...

High-Luminosity LHC upgrade work has begun at CERN after the Large Hadron Collider logged its final collision on June 27, 2026, entering a four-year, $1.5 billion Long Shutdown 3 program to replace 1.

Imagine a piece of space debris the size of a hockey puck slams into a Starlink satellite at about 10 kilometers per second. The kinetic energy is equivalent to 2 kilograms of TNT, or a fully loaded ...

In horror movies, music is a dead giveaway. Tension builds with each note, and you brace for the inevitable jump scare. The same sense of anticipation has taken a leading role in an unlikely venue: a ...

And no, they didn’t shut down ‘cuz it was gonna create a black hole. LHC will be replaced with an upgrade—HiLumi LHC.

After decades of debate, the scientific case is clear for Europe’s Future Circular Collider, a colossal successor to the ...

When I arrived at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) in the prairie suburbs west of Chicago to begin my ...