The only place that's likely to happen is at the very center of our galaxy. And, for a while, there was an excess of ...

Discover the fascinating world of particle physics — the most fundamental building blocks of the universe and the forces that connect them.

Scientists using the atom-smashing machine known as the Large Hadron Collider said they had observed two new particles never seen before, a discovery that refines physicists’ understanding of ...

These X particles, which likely existed in the tiniest fractions of a second after the Big Bang, were detected inside a roiling broth of elementary particles called a quark-gluon plasma, formed in ...

Scientists working with the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have discovered three subatomic particles never seen before as they work to unlock the building blocks of the universe, the European nuclear ...

Researchers analyse binding of nucleons in atomic nuclei at the quark-gluon level for the first time / Bridge from nuclear to particle physics In particle physics, quarks are known as the building ...

A century ago, physicists felt sure it was the atom. Today, we believe that the deepest layer of reality is populated by a diverse cast of elementary particles, all governed by quantum theory.