particles

Astronomy Cast Ep. 368: Searching for the Aether Wind: the Michelson–Morley Experiment

Waves move through a medium, like water or air. So it seemed logical to search for a medium that light…

9 years ago

Where’s All The Antimatter?

One of the biggest mysteries in the Universe is the fact there there's matter, and not antimatter. Where did it…

9 years ago

NASA’s Particle-Hunting ISS-CREAM Will Be Anything But Vanilla

Balloon-based research on cosmic particles that began over a century ago will get a big boost next year -- all…

11 years ago

Watch a Million Particles Collide

What happens when you give 1,000,000 particles their own gravity and spring repulsion and send them out to play? Watch…

11 years ago

Saturn’s Fluctuating F Ring

Bright clumps of material spotted within Saturn's ropy F ring (NASA/JPL/SSI) Released today, this image acquired by NASA's Cassini spacecraft…

11 years ago

A Rare Type of Solar Storm Spotted by Satellite

[/caption] When a moderate-sized M-class flare erupted from the Sun on May 17, it sent out a barrage of high-energy…

12 years ago

Finding Out What Dark Matter Is – And Isn’t

Astronomers using NASA's Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope have been looking for evidence of suspected types of dark matter particles within…

12 years ago