Even the most powerful telescopes have not yet been able to see far enough back in time to witness events from the Big Bang.

The collisions will happen under enough heat and pressure to melt protons and neutrons and release their components (quarks ...

What happens when the smallest building blocks of matter refuse to play by the rules of traditional physics? For decades, ...

An unforeseen feature in proton-proton collisions previously observed by the CMS experiment at CERN's Large Hadron Collider ...

Artist's impression of the short-lived union of a top quark and a top antiquark formed by the exchange of gluons. (Image: D.

Fifty experts on nuclear physics, particle physics and astrophysics met at CERN from 9 to 13 June to discuss how to use ...

While gluons are responsible for generating most of the visible mass in the universe, their role inside nuclei remains poorly ...

Angular momentum is a fundamental quantity in physics that describes the rotational motion of objects. In quantum physics, it ...

The ATLAS and ALICE collaborations have announced the first results of a new way to measure the “radial flow” of quark–gluon ...