Chinese scientists have deployed prototype detectors in the South China Sea to explore building a large underwater observatory to detect neutrinos, tiny particles from space.

Neutrinos, often called 'ghost particles', are subatomic particles that travel through space but barely interact with ...

The year was 1900 and Max Planck was a young physicist working on the problem of blackbody radiation . This was an intense ...

Cosmic rays coming from outside the Solar System bring these particles closer to the Sun, where they experience changes ...

Featuring the world’s largest digital camera, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory will capture these mysterious phenomena in more ...

More than a decade of data about the particles zipping around our sun can solve mysteries from the behaviour of individual ...

Scientists from the University of Southampton have launched an ambitious experiment aimed at detecting dark matter, a mysterious force that makes ...

Scientists are working on an ambitious dark matter experiment in space in the hope it can unravel one of the universe's ...

A compact method of detecting neutrinos provides new tests of physics theories and could lead to new reactor-monitoring methods.

Detecting dark matter particles and understanding their underlying physics is a long-standing research goal for many ...

Detecting dark matter, the elusive type of matter predicted to account for most of the universe's mass, has so far proved to ...

After decades of study, scientists sound genuinely optimistic about the possibility of detecting primordial black holes, which might explain dark matter.