Antimatter particles are mirror versions of matter particles, with the opposite values of properties such as electric charge. But they ‘annihilate’ in a puff of energy when they encounter their ...

In one of those physics announcements that may or may not prove important when we figure out the ultimate nature of the universe, scientists at CERN, the European lab for particle physics, announced ...

Chemical rockets have taken us to the moon and back, but traveling to the stars demands something more powerful. Space X's ...

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"Antimatter men" haunted comic books and TV science-fiction shows such as "Lost in Space" in the 1960s. On the TV show, the fictional Professor Robinson encountered little more than a nonsensical ...

Valued at $62.5 trillion per gram, antimatter is the world's costliest material. Know how this substance—which packs the ...

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Antimatter is notoriously tricky to store and study, thanks to the fact that it will vanish in a burst of energy if it so much as touches regular matter. The CERN lab is one of the only places in the ...

Physics tells us that a hammer and a feather, dropped in a vacuum, will fall at the same rate – as famously demonstrated by an Apollo 15 astronaut on the Moon. Now, CERN scientists are preparing to ...

In a technological tour de force, scientists have developed a new way to probe antimatter. For the first time, researchers were able to zap antimatter atoms with a laser, then precisely measure the ...

Nuclear scientists in Switzerland recently dropped some antimatter. The world didn’t blow up, but there were some tiny explosions. Scientists are hoping the experiment will teach them more about how ...

As beautiful as the universe is, astronomers still can't explain why it is the way it is. The universe should be uniform, without galaxies like seen here. A physics paper released in November 2020 ...