In about 10 hours of observations, NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory discovered 2,104 never-before-seen asteroids in our solar system, including seven near-Earth asteroids (which pose no danger).

Next week, physicists will meet in Venice to discuss the future of European particle physics research. Early in his career, ...

Near miss ALICE is designed to study quark-gluon plasma, the hottest and densest form of matter in the universe. “Ultimately, we're trying to understand how matter behaves at the most extreme ...

Getting there Before building the DUNE detectors, scientists must test and validate their technology. Scientists at European research center CERN have taken on this task by building and operating a ...

In the late 1890s, physicist Max Planck proposed a set of units to simplify the expression of physics laws. Using just five constants in nature (including the speed of light and the gravitational ...

Danielle Hodgkinson watched with cautious curiosity as the data poured onto screens in the control room for the ALPHA experiment. The ALPHA team was working to observe an effect that had never been ...

With enough time and magnifying power, a telescope can gather all the light it needs to create a pretty complete portrait of a single, distant galaxy. But some scientists are opting for a more ...

Building a bathroom scale for neutrinos Back in 1980, Robertson and Bowles developed a new idea for making a direct neutrino mass measurement. But there were only a few places that had the equipment, ...

Nima Arkani-Hamed Professor, Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton Theoretical physicist In Particle Fever, theorist Nima Arkani-Hamed says on camera, “I’ve spent the last 15 years thinking about ...

These now-routine measurements were not possible with the available scientific instruments a little over a century ago, when physicist Elmer Imes started looking into spectroscopy. But in his research ...

Building galaxies Although there are theories about when and how each type of dark-matter candidate would have formed, the only thing scientists know for sure is that dark matter was already around ...