Physics

What's making these things fly out of the frozen continent?

Scientists are searching for a ghostly neutrino particle that acts as its own antiparticle. If they find it, the discovery could resolve a cosmic conundrum: Why does matter exist at all?

It was a lot more powerful than anyone believed.

String theory is a powerful idea, unfinished and untested, but one that has persisted for decades despite inauspicious beginnings.

Researchers claim to have found serious fault with the existence of dark energy, but not everyone is buying into it.

We just might need new physics to get out of this mess.

Where did these stars come from?

A new model suggests that the star Betelgeuse committed an act of cannibalism.

What's going on in the middle of our galaxy?

The world of the teensy-tiny, the quantum realm, could have a favorite flavor. Here's why that's a big deal.

No one really knows what happens inside an atom.

Quantum computing seems to inch closer every year.

These strange discoveries will suck you in.

Heat isn't supposed to move like this.

We live in a very big house, but we can't see most of it.

Neutron stars have never been caught behaving this way before.

It would rewrite the Standard Model of physics.

Why do gas bubbles appear to get stuck inside narrow vertical tubes?

NASA's Parker Solar Probe has passed through the outer atmosphere of the sun, and now we get to see what it found.