After years of confusion, a new study confirms the proton is tinier than once thought. That enables a test of the standard model of particle physics.

Astronomers have made a historic discovery by directly detecting cosmic rays deep inside a dense, starless molecular cloud. This breakthrough provides an invaluable look at the invisible particles ...

After 25 years of experiments recreating early-universe matter, Brookhaven's RHIC has completed its final particle collisions ...

Just after 9 a.m. on Friday, Feb. 6, 2026, final beams of oxygen ions—oxygen atoms stripped of their electrons—circulated ...

When the universe first burst into being, all of space was a cosmic cauldron filled with a roiling, fiery liquid of ...

After 25 years, Brookhaven National Laboratory’s Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider—the U.S.’s largest particle collider—has ...

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

Data from the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) has revealed that particles retain spin signatures from the quantum vacuum.

Protons make up most of the regular matter in the universe, but we're still figuring out a few of their quirks... Or quarks.

Scientists have found “strange quarks” that originated as virtual particles that sprang from nothing Quantum physics paints a strange picture of the world, one filled with spooky connections, ...

With a new electrochemical synthesis via an electrochemical nitrogen reduction reaction (NRR), achieving carbon-free ammonia ...

On a late night in the Philippines, zoologist Terry Gosliner slipped into the waters of a sandy harbor, on the hunt for photos of octopus and other marine creatures. But as he swept his flashlight ...