CR7 is not just Cristiano Ronaldo's famous nickname. It is also the name of one of the earliest known galaxies in the Universe. Here's why astronomers chose the name and what makes Cosmic Redshift 7 ...

The world's largest scientific machine—the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN—has shut down after completing a landmark ...

Buried deep underground, this extraordinary machine has already transformed humanity's understanding of the universe.

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High-Luminosity LHC upgrade work has begun at CERN after the Large Hadron Collider logged its final collision on June 27, 2026, entering a four-year, $1.5 billion Long Shutdown 3 program to replace 1.

New telescopes are challenging the idea that the cosmic web fades into a uniform, directionless distribution. It may be ...

When Andreas Albrecht was a grad student at the University of Pennsylvania, he was looking for an advisor in particle physics ...

Astronomers have recently started looking for black holes bigger than galaxies. Brian Lacki explains how these “stupendously ...