79 Results From "antimatter"

Antimatter particles may be a lot more predictable than science fiction makes it out to be, responding to gravity just like regular matter.
Science & Energy

Scientists Disappointed to Find That Antimatter Falls When You Drop It

The signal could help explain why an explosion called a gamma ray burst appeared to be the most powerful ever detected.
Off-World

Scientists Find Hidden Signal in Epic Cosmic Explosion

The unholy lightning collision unleashed a rarely witnessed blast of the most energetic radiation seen on Earth.
Science & Energy

Scientists Just Witnessed Two Lightning Bolts Collide and Unleash a Blast of Radiation

Scientists at CERN just made one of the rarest observations in particle physics to-date, measuring an ultra-rare form of kaon decay.
Physics

Something Wild Just Happened at the CERN Particle Accelerator

A team of astronomers say they've made the first ever detection of dark matter by examining gamma rays near the center of the Milky Way.
Dark Matter

Scientists Claim to Detect Dark Matter for the First Time Ever

Astronomers have spotted a ghostly skeleton hand floating in outer space some 16,000 light-years from Earth.
NASA

NASA Shows Off Image That Looks an Awful Lot Like Skeleton Fingers Floating in Space

Wanna feel small? Peep these latest photos from NASA that show an x-ray beam trillions of kilometers long coming out of a collapsing star. 
Science & Energy

NASA Image Shows Tiny Star Unleashing Furious Beam of Antimatter

Physicists Find Particles That Switch Between Matter and Antimatter
From Quarks to Quasars

Physicists Find Particles That Switch Between Matter and Antimatter

Scientists confirmed that a powerful antineutrino crashed into Antarctica in 2016, triggering a subatomic phenomenon that had never been verified before.
Physics

Scientists Confirm an Incredibly Powerful Antimatter Particle Crashed Into Antarctica

If a new tweet means anything, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk already has his eyes set on a much higher-tech rocket fuel: antimatter.
Science & Energy

In Cryptic Tweet, Elon Musk Refers to Antimatter-Powered Rockets

A physicist from the UK named Melvin Vopson is raising a startling possibility: that dark matter might be information itself.
Science & Energy

Scientist Says That Dark Matter May Be Information Itself

Scientists dropped a spherical telescope into Lake Baikal, where they hope it will spot subatomic neutrinos zipping by as they pass through the Earth.
Physics

Scientists Dump Telescope Into the World’s Deepest Lake to Hunt for Dark Matter

Scientists are colliding electrons with their antimatter counterparts, positrons, in order to hunt and study a subatomic particle called the Z' boson.
Physics

Physicists Are Crashing Matter into Antimatter to Hunt a New Boson

Researchers at Fermilab in Illinois have found new evidence suggesting that a subatomic particle called a muon is not following the known laws of physics.
Physics

Scientists Just Found Evidence for Fifth Force of Nature

A team of physicists attempted a bizarre new way to spot dark matter: using antimatter probes. It hasn't worked yet, but the scientists have some ideas.
Physics

New Research: Antimatter Could Be Portal to “Dark Universe”

Their research falls short of a definite discovery, but researchers think they've found evidence of one of the main theories on why the universe exists.
Physics

Scientists May Be Close to Understanding Why the Universe Exists

Scientists discovered that a bizarre quasiparticle can reproduce by splitting in two and self-repairing like a biological cell would.
Physics

Bizarre Subatomic “Quasiparticle” Reproduces Like a Living Cell

A new model reveals that black holes could take in a steady stream of antimatter particles that gradually chip away until the black hole dissipates.
Black Holes

New Research Reveals That Black Holes Can Die

According to a new theory, the Big Bang also generated a second "anti-universe" that extended backwards in time, like a mirror image of our own.
Physics

New Theory: “Mirror Image” of Our Universe Existed Before Big Bang

Researchers from CERN have just moved one step closer to cooling antimatter, which should make it easier for us to study the mysterious substance.
Physics

We’re Almost Able to Cool Antimatter. Here’s Why That’s a Big Deal.