Neutron stars are ultra-dense star remnants made up primarily of nucleons (i.e., protons and neutrons). Over the course of millions of years, these stars progressively cool down, radiating heat into ...

Observations of the formation of light-nuclei from high-energy collisions may help in the hunt for dark matter.

Researchers from TUM, working at CERN, have made a groundbreaking discovery that reveals how deuterons are formed. Another long-standing question in particle physics has been answered. Scientists ...

From a particle smasher encircling the moon to an “impossible” laser, five scientists reveal the experiments they would run ...

How the world of the smallest particles is structured, what is known about fundamental forces, and what particles have to do with the Big Bang ...

Using JWST, scientists discovered PSR J2322-2650b — a carbon-rich, lemon-shaped exoplanet orbiting a pulsar — challenging ...

Another long-standing mystery in particle physics has finally been solved. An international research team of the ALICE ...

Explore the debate surrounding a potential dark matter discovery, highlighting skepticism and the need for rigorous ...

For decades, nuclear physicists believed that “Islands of Inversion” — regions where the normal rules of nuclear structure ...

Atomic nuclei are often described as orderly systems. Certain numbers of protons or neutrons, called magic numbers, usually ...

Argentina aims to become self-sufficient and an exporter of radioisotopes when the RA-10 multipurpose reactor is operating, ...

At the heart of every atomic nucleus, the strong interaction quietly dictates the structure of matter, yet for decades one of ...