From lodestones and amber to Maxwell's equations and particle annihilation, physics keeps arriving at the same unsettling ...

Quantum physicists at the Australian National University (ANU) have achieved a major milestone by directly observing atoms ...

Dark matter is supposed to be everywhere, threaded through the Milky Way and outnumbering ordinary matter by a wide margin.

Scientists have made the first experimental observation of matter wave diffraction in a short-lived electron-positron atom.

New research suggests that relic black holes from before the big bang may still shape galaxies today. These black holes could ...

University of Chicago physicist Clay Córdova has been named a recipient of the 2026 New Horizons in Physics Prize for his ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captures the magnificent starry population of the Coma Cluster of galaxies, one of the densest known galaxy collections in the universe — and where the effect of dark ...

Explore the intriguing 'flavour puzzle' in particle physics, uncovering the mysteries behind subatomic particles and their ...

Scientists talk about dark matter an awful lot for something they don’t actually understand very well. They say that it’s important — and that we wouldn’t have stars and galaxies without it — though ...