In 1971, astronaut David Scott stood on the lunar surface, holding a hammer and a feather, and in the vacuum of the moon, he ...

NASA’s Scientific Balloon Program has reached new heights, both literally and figuratively, with four successful ...

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 ...

Scientists are exploring the possibilities of antimatter propulsion as they try to achieve interstellar travel. While conventional rockets provide high thrust, they struggle with low efficiency.

NASA has completed a series of scientific balloon flights over Antarctica during a campaign that began in early December.

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. An artist's illustration of an antihyperhydrogen-4 antimatter nucleus being created from the ...

NASA has successfully concluded its scientific balloon campaign in Antarctica, aimed at studying cosmic particles and searching for antimatter.

In the world of science fiction, warp drives or antigravity devices are often powered by antimatter, which in real-life physics are mysterious particles that have an opposite charge and spin compared ...

If you buy something using links in our stories, we may earn a commission. This helps support our journalism. Learn more. Please also consider subscribing to WIRED For decades, researchers have toyed ...

It’s invisible to the naked eye, will self-destruct if you touch it, and should have caused the destruction of the universe just moments after the Big Bang — enter antimatter, the bad boy of particle ...

Going to smaller and smaller distance scales reveals more fundamental views of nature, which means if we can understand and describe the smallest scales, we can build our way to an understanding of ...