A team of scientists has an unusual explanation for how and when dark matter — the invisible, mysterious stuff that’s theorized to make up most of the matter in the universe — was formed. The theory ...

Quark-gluon plasma, a bizarre state of matter that mimics the early cosmos, is the hottest thing ever made on Earth ...

Supermassive black holes have been known to belch gigantic beams of plasma into space – and now scientists have managed to recreate these fireballs in a lab at CERN. Although black holes are famous ...

Voyager 1—the most distant human-made object—has made yet another remarkable discovery having to do with interstellar space. It’s steady, persistent, and long-lasting: a low-frequency hum that’s ...

Under normal conditions quarks and gluons are confined within protons and neutrons, which in turn are confined to the atomic nucleus. However, in the early universe, about a millionth of a second ...

Information could become the fifth state of matter alongside gas, plasma, liquid, and solid states. A scientist has proposed an experiment involving particle annihilation that could establish that ...

The European Research Council (ERC) is awarding 2.4 million euros in support of the research on a matter-antimatter plasma composed of electrons and positrons to be produced for the first time in the ...

The Nature Index 2025 Research Leaders — previously known as Annual Tables — reveal the leading institutions and countries/territories in the natural and health sciences, according to their output in ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The Universe is out there, waiting for you to discover it. How many states of matter are there? When you were young, you probably ...

Three physicists at the University of Nevada, Reno have received grants for high-energy-density plasma research from the Department of Energy, more awards this year than any other institution in the ...