Mark Thomson has taken the reins at CERN just as particle physics confronts some of its deepest unknowns – and faces hard ...

Theoretical physicist John Ellis has spent decades at the heart of CERN, helping to shape our understanding of the universe ...

A gigantic "blazar" may have fired a beam of light-speed particles at our planet, creating a 2023 "ghost particle" detection.

For over two decades, scientists at CERN observed unexplained particle losses in their Super Proton Synchrotron. A new study ...

A particle detected in 2023 at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea may have originated from a cosmic particle accelerator ...

Our most powerful particle accelerators mimic near-light speeds of cosmic particles. But no upgrade may be capable of ...

Scientists working at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider may be seeing the strongest hints yet of physics beyond the Standard Model — the decades-old theory that explains the fundamental particles and ...

The future circular collider at CERN, intended to probe the properties of the Higgs boson in 20 years' time, excites ...

Physicists searching for a better understanding of quantum gravity stumbled upon something unexpected: the defining ...

A new subatomic particle known as the Ξcc⁺ has been discovered at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider. This heavy proton-like particle contains two charm quarks and was detected using the upgraded LHCb ...

The magnum opus of particle physics is far from complete, requiring physicists to devise many alternatives—some weirder than others. Reading time 5 minutes For all practical purposes, the Standard ...