A particle accelerator is not some kind of evil super villain torture device. A particle accelerator is used for health, ...

Synchrotron radiation has revealed a star map made by the ancient astronomer Hipparchus that was thought to be lost to time ...

Ancient Greek astronomers made important observations regarding the night sky long before the first ...

Before the RHIC shut down, it was the only operational particle collider in the U.S. and one of two heavy-ion colliders in the world, the other being the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Switzerland.

The famed collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory has ended operations, but if all goes to plan, a new collider will rise ...

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have developed a novel artificial ...

The parchments initially contained references to a star catalog and maps created during the second century B.C.E.

Planetary defence research often sits between modelling and imagination, with few chances to test real materials under realistic conditions. A new stu.

In 1930, a young physicist named Carl D. Anderson was tasked by his mentor with measuring the energies of cosmic ...

As the Dark Energy Survey (DES) releases its final results, we caught up with two physicists who've been involved in the project from its early days. In this Q&A, Josh Frieman, DES co-founder and ...

University of Chicago researchers have begun examining data collected by a device transported by a NASA balloon that flew ...

A 1 Gw orbital data center would cost roughly $42.4B—almost three times its ground-bound equivalent.