Using the world's most powerful particle accelerator, CERN's Large Hadron Collider, scientists have discovered that the ...

Learn how physicists recreated the early universe’s primordial soup, known as quark-gluon plasma, and discovered how it responds when particles race through it.

Our existence rests on a razor‑thin imbalance in the early cosmos. When the universe was young, matter and antimatter should ...

Physics says many laws should look the same forward and backward in time — but this particle doesn’t fully follow that rule. It shows a real imbalance that scientists call “time symmetry breaking,” ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An artist's concept of multiple types of subatomic particles. (Mark Garlick/Science Photo Library) Forget about turtles; for all ...

Tarantula nebula—a starforming region—seen by the James Webb Space Telescope. Credit: Nasa, ESA, CSA, STScI, Webb ERO Production Team, CC BY-SA Although our universe may seem stable, having existed ...

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 ...