Physics
Breakthrough in Long Search for 'Holy Grail' TetraquarkA combination of four quarks is something scientists have never been able to prove exists—until now.
Search for Dark Matter Dealt Another BlowPhysicists are sick and tired of not being able to find dark matter.
Subatomic Event More Powerful Than A Hydrogen BombTake a deep breath, the scientists are sure a "quarksplosion" can't be weaponized.
How Cosmic Rays Were Used to Find Void in Giza PyramidCosmic rays bombard Earth all the time—here's how scientists used them to explore one of the seven wonders of the world.
Secret Chamber in Egypt's Great Pyramid DiscoveredScanPyramids team announces discovery of a 100 foot void above the Grand Gallery.
Dark Matter Day: Celebrating the Biggest Cosmic MysteryDark matter makes up most of the universe, but scientists have no idea what it is.
Stephen Hawking's PhD Thesis ExplainedHawking's paper was released by Cambridge University 51 years after the physicist wrote it.
The Universe Should Not Actually Exist, Scientists SayExperiments at CERN still cannot explain how matter formed in the early universe.
Scientific Units, Including Kilograms, May Be UpdatedIf approved, the changes would take effect May 2019.
Future NASA Planes Could Cross Country in One HourThe secret is in their ability to withstand heat.
Mystery of the Universe's Missing Matter Finally SolvedNormal matter makes up just five percent of the universe, but we can only see about 2.5 percent of it.
Neil deGrasse Tyson's Film and TV Reviews: A Brief ListThe astrophysicist most recently chimed in about "Titanic." Is he veering away from his strictly science-based reviews?
Gravitational Wave Scientists Win Physics Nobel PrizeRainer Weiss, Barry C. Barish and Kip S. Thorne win for "decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves."
Supersonic Gas From Big Bang Formed First Black HolesHow supermassive black holes formed so quickly after the start of the universe has long baffled scientists.
Gravitational Waves Discovered for Fourth TimeNetwork of detectors in U.S. and Europe was used to zoom in on the source of gravitational waves.
Giant Neutrino Detector to Hunt Down Cosmic ParticlesStudying neutrinos will help researchers answer fundamental questions about the universe.
Neil deGrasse Tyson Takes on 'Game of Thrones' ScienceThe last of his tweets leaves science aside for what could read as a political statement.
How Could We Stop an Asteroid?The best method for destroying a huge asteroid that is headed towards Earth that I've come across is to explode a thermonuclear warhead a few miles above the surface.
Monster Black Hole Discovered Near Center of Milky WayObject found hiding in a cloud of molecular gas believed to be an elusive type of black hole.
Mystery Repeating Signals from Deep Space ExplainedPhysicists discuss the latest discovery of 15 radio bursts coming from a galaxy three billion light years away.
Black Hole Models Are Wrong, X-Ray Machine ShowsZ machine shows what happens to matter just before it is consumed by black holes.
5 questions answered about the solar eclipseAn academic casts light on what it means when the sun goes dark.
New Charming Particle Discovered By Scientists at CERNNewly discovered particle was predicted to exist by the Standard Model of particle physics.
The Fastest Stars in the Galaxy are Galactic RunawaysAstronomers discover hypervelocity stars originally came from a dwarf galaxy orbiting the Milky Way.
Does Dark Energy Exist? Maybe Not, Scientists SayNew experiments are showing the universe is even more complicated than we thought, and may not even have a single age.
Orbiting Supermassive Black Holes Seen for First TimeScientists' observations could help us understand what could happen to our own galaxy in the future.
Hawking: Earth Is Under Threat—Humans Need to LeaveHawking said we need to leave within 500 years "if humanity is to continue for another million years."
Without a Big Bang, There Could Be No UniverseScientists show the big bang is still our best theory of how the universe began.
Albert Einstein Letters on Science and God Are for Sale"From your native country one cannot expect—in the foreseeable time—a more reasonable political attitude," he wrote of the U.S.
