Neutron stars are ultra-dense star remnants made up primarily of nucleons (i.e., protons and neutrons). Over the course of ...

For more than 60 years, the High Flux Isotope Reactor has produced neutron beams for the benefit of society, creating real-world impacts that span energy security, quantum computing, healthcare, ...

Two papers challenged the existence of theorized particles called sterile neutrinos that might account for mysteries like the ...

UT researchers have made rare measurements of exotic nuclear decay that reshape how scientists think heavy elements form in extreme cosmic events. You can’t have gold without the decay of an atomic ...

A collaborative research team from the Institute of Solid State Physics, the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the ...

Roughly four and a half billion years ago the planet Theia slammed into Earth, destroying Theia, melting large fractions of Earth’s mantle and ejecting a huge debris disk that later formed the moon.

In 1999, Belgian physicist Chris Van Den Broeck implemented a minor alteration to Alcubierre’s concept by shrinking the ...

Physicists have finally secured direct evidence that quantum spin ice, a long-hypothesized and highly unusual state of matter ...

The supercollider is now being used to explore quantum phenomena, including a “magic” form of quantum entanglement.

Astronomers located hyperactive fast radio bursts to a faint dwarf galaxy orbiting a larger companion 2 billion light-years ...

Photo taken on Dec. 17, 2015 shows a Long March 2-D rocket carrying the Dark Matter Particle Explorer satellite blasting off.