The Large Hadron Collider was used in 2012 to find the elusive Higgs boson particle. The complex machine at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, in Geneva, includes a huge ...

In a recent issue of Science Magazine, the High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.) team of international astrophysicists reports the discovery of another new type of very high energy (VHE) gamma ...

A strange object in space is baffling astronomers as it releases massive bursts of energy roughly three times an hour. The object is spinning through space and releasing beams of radiation one minute ...

Cosmic rays definitely have the most mysterious-sounding name in the universe, and they definitely live up to it. Even their history is intriguing. Physicists first suspected their presence more than ...

Astronomers say the "unusual" energy bursts occurred every 20 minutes. There are theories as to what it could be, but the best guess is it's a slow spinning neutron star. Senior astronomer Seth ...

Scientific discovery doesn’t always require a high-tech laboratory or a hefty budget. Many people have a first-rate lab right in their own homes – their kitchen. The kitchen offers plenty of ...

The vastness of the universe is hard to comprehend, let alone map, but a cosmological project from the National Science Foundation’s NOIRLab aims to do just that. The Dark Energy Spectroscopic ...