High energy proton collisions can be pictured as a roiling sea of quarks and gluons, including short lived virtual particles. At first glance, this ...

Inside high-energy proton collisions, quarks and gluons briefly form a dense, boiling state before cooling into ordinary ...

Some problems grow quietly, almost politely, until they stop being ignorable. Space junk is one of those. It does not ...

In a Columbia University laboratory in New York, physicist Sebastian Will and his team have reached one of ultracold physics’ ...

Next head of Cern backs massive replacement for world’s largest machine to investigate mysteries of the universe ...

SpaceX is mulling an IPO in 2026. Here’s how that could affect its work with NASA and the push to put humans on Mars ...

When black holes collide, the impact radiates into space like the sound of a bell in the form of gravitational waves. But ...

Two enormous space rocks have slammed together in a nearby planetary system, and for the first time astronomers have watched ...

Just 25 light-years from Earth, astronomers have watched a planetary system tear itself apart in real time, catching the dusty aftermath of violent impacts that were once only theoretical. Instead of ...

Researchers attempted to quantify the risk of a catastrophic collision in orbit by coming up with an alarming new metric.

All 67 people on board the plane and the helicopter were killed. An American Airlines regional jet went down in the Potomac River near Washington, D.C.'s Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport ...