(NASA, ESA, and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration) Quarks and gluons have a strong attraction ...

A recent study has proposed a new mechanism for the formation of primordial black holes that could provide answers about dark matter.

Researchers have long been hunting for a way to make the elusive elements more stable so they can be better studied.

Nuclear fission has powered our world and medical advancements for decades. What exactly happens when an atom's nucleus splits into two parts?

Massive stars about eight times more massive than the Sun explode as supernovae at the end of their lives. The explosions, ...

Scientists at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have achieved a big breakthrough in neutron research. They ran a neutron production system for 1,250 hours using a 1.7-megawatt proton beam. This ...

Astronomers have used a range of telescopes, including Hubble, to watch as particles dance around a neutron star collision ...

Oak Ridge Lab's Spallation Neutron Source reached 1.7 MW with a new target for 1,250 hours, ahead of a 2025 review.

Scientists demonstrated a new way to use high-energy particle smashups at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), a world ...

Scientists have demonstrated a new way to use high-energy particle smashups at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) to reveal subtle details about the shapes of atomic nuclei. The method is ...

Nuclear physics theorists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have demonstrated that ...

Different neutron states could explain why different experiments produce different figures for how long neutrons survive ...