Particle never before seen on Earth detected; it could come from a primordial black hole and the origin of the universe.

The Sun unleashes a torrent of charged particles. Some of them slam into the Earth’s atmosphere, triggering breathtaking auroras in the night sky. But for equipment that’s orbiting our planet in outer ...

Microplastics and nanoplastics are now found everywhere on Earth, from ocean depths to agricultural soils and even inside the human body. Yet scientists still struggle to understand what these ...

Cosmic rays are extremely fast, charged particles that travel through space at nearly the speed of light. The Amaterasu particle was detected in 2021 by the Telescope Array experiment in the U.S. It ...

Following a massive cryovolcanic eruption, the mysterious Comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann has been morphed into a giant spiral and is now shining 100 times brighter than normal.

In Cairn you will come to a cave full of glowing crystals made of Piton-proof hard stone that has a ledge high above the cave and a seemingly impossible route to get to it. Above is a great prize, the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. US physicists have shed light on a long-standing mystery after they captured rare experimental evidence that links the fleeting ...

Theoretical particle physics is the development of models for describing fundamental particles and their interactions. This includes testing and refining the prevailing theory: the standard model.

Yes, really—your body glows in the dark. Not in a sci-fi, radioactive superhero kind of way, but in a subtle, ghostly shimmer that’s 1,000 times too faint for the human eye to see. This strange and ...

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