CubeSat satellite activates after a powerful solar storm and discovers two new and mysterious radiation belts around Earth.

Real particles are lumps of energy that can be "seen" or detected by appropriate instruments; this feature is what makes them ...

Scientists are holding up a 'mirror' to protons and neutrons to learn more about the particles that build our visible universe. The MARATHON experiment has accessed new details about these particles' ...

Jefferson Lab's Compton polarimeter laser system, used to measure the parallel spin of electrons, is aligned during the Calcium Radius Experiment at Jefferson Lab. Credit: Jefferson Lab/Dave Gaskell ...

Wielding proton beams and lasers, physicists have for the first time unlocked one of the key secrets of the rarest naturally occurring element on Earth: astatine. Astatine is a "halogen," meaning it ...

ASHINGTON (Reuters) -Neutrinos are tiny particles that can pass through everything, rarely interacting with matter.

NEWPORT NEWS, VA – Research performed at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility has found that protons are about 20 times more likely to pair up with neutrons ...

Wielding proton beams and lasers, physicists have for the first time unlocked one of the key secrets of the rarest naturally occurring element on Earth: astatine. It's so rare that until recently, ...