Toshihide Maskawa, a dedicated peace advocate who won the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics for his theoretical research on elementary particles, died on July 23. He was 81. In 1973, Maskawa, a professor ...

ST. LOUIS ? Quark stars, exotic objects thathave yet to be directly observed, are part of a new theory to explain some ofthe brightest stellar explosions recorded in the universe.

Recreating the conditions present just after the Big Bang has given experimentalists a glimpse into how the universe formed. Now, scientists have begun to see striking similarities between the ...

For a large star, death is a bit of a squeeze. Once its nuclear fuel is spent, its core collapses, sparking a dramatic supernova explosion that blasts away the outer layers. The body left is a cold, ...

Thanks to a new development in nuclear physics theory, scientists exploring expanding fireballs that mimic the early universe have new signs to look for as they map out the transition from primordial ...

University of Chicago scientists have solved a 20-year-old puzzle in particle physics using data from an experiment conducted for an entirely different purpose. Physicists had long known that ...

Three American physicists shared the $1,3-million Nobel prize for physics for calculating the bizarre properties of the ultimate fragments of matter. They provided the mathematics for a completely new ...

For a few millionths of a second after the Big Bang, the universe consisted of a hot soup of elementary particles called quarks and gluons. A few microseconds later, those particles began cooling to ...

Thanks to a new development in nuclear physics theory, scientists exploring expanding fireballs that mimic the early universe have new signs to look for as they map out the transition from primordial ...