Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Everything we see around us, from the ground beneath our feet to the most remote galaxies, is made of matter. For scientists, that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Spiral galaxies, like Messier 77 shown here, helped astronomers learn about the existence of dark matter. NASA, ESA & A. van der ...

Understanding why matter and antimatter behave differently is key to understanding why there is a universe at all. Now physicists have discovered the latest example of a subtle difference between the ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." The universe is filled with something instead of nothing—and that’s a problem. Well, a quick ...

Antimatter, the elusive counterpart to the matter that makes up everything around us, has intrigued scientists for decades. Recent breakthroughs have begun to unravel the mysteries surrounding ...

From 19 to 22 January, 80 particle physicists, astronomers and cosmologists gathered at CERN for the first “All that ...

There are excesses of gamma-ray emissions from the center of the Milky Way that are not fully understood. It has been hypothesized that dark matter could be responsible for it, though there has not ...

The LHCb experiment at CERN has revealed a fundamental asymmetry in the behavior of particles called baryons. “The reason why it took longer to observe CP violation in baryons than in mesons is down ...

Our universe is filled with particles, such as electrons and protons, which make up all the stuff on our planet and beyond: animals, plants, people, planets, asteroids, stars, gas clouds, and galaxies ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Dipangkar Dutta, Mississippi State University (THE CONVERSATION) Advertisement Article ...

Everything we see around us, from the ground beneath our feet to the most remote galaxies, is made of matter. For scientists, that has long posed a problem: According to physicists’ best current ...