A mile beneath the Black Hills of South Dakota, crews have spent years blasting and hauling rock to carve out enormous ...

A dense network of sensors is looking for the fleeting footprints of neutrinos, the most mysterious in the pantheon of known ...

The KM3NeT collaboration is a large research group involved in the operation of a neutrino telescope network in the deep ...

Particle never before seen on Earth detected; it could come from a primordial black hole and the origin of the universe.

The world’s largest neutrino detector just got even more powerful after scientists successfully deployed ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. SBND detector Scientists have taken a major step towards finding elusive types of tiny, 'ghost-like' particles, and potentially ...

An artist’s composition of the Milky Way seen with a neutrino lens (blue). Astronomers are hailing a “new lens” they can use to observe the universe after the publishing of this new image (above) of ...

Particle physicists have gone to great lengths — including rowing onto the dark waters of a swimming pool-sized water tank and setting up a base in the Antarctic — to understand one of the universe’s ...

Gear-obsessed editors choose every product we review. We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? Physicists have shone a light, so to speak, on a key missing value for neutrino mass.

Doug Cowen is a professor of astronomy, astrophysics and physics at Pennsylvania State University; Derek Fox is an associate professor of astronomy and astrophysics at Pennsylvania State University; ...

There are three types of neutrino — electron, muon and tau — and the type is set when a neutrino is generated or detected. For example, in a nuclear process called β decay, an unstable nucleus ...