For decades, physicists searched for a missing piece of nature's puzzle, an elusive particle believed to explain why matter ...

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 ...

Europe's physics lab CERN is planning to build a particle-smasher even bigger than its Large Hadron Collider to continue searching for answers to some of the universe's tiniest yet most profound ...

Various large-scale astrophysical research projects are set to take place over the next decade, several of which are so-called cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments. These are large-scale ...

Head to Switzerland for a tour of CERN, the world’s largest particle physics research laboratory, to discover the secrets of ...