Getting places in space quickly has been the goal of propulsion research for a long time. Rockets, our most common means of ...

In 1932, physicists glimpsed antimatter for the first time — a strange mirror image of regular matter with mind-bending ...

“Antimatter propulsion is a groundbreaking technology with potential to transform space exploration, enabling travel to ...

For the uninitiated, antimatter is the bizarre "evil twin" of normal matter, with opposite charges and physical properties. In the rare event the duo collides, it ...

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Scientists at CERN's ALICE detector are replicating conditions found during the Big Bang, attempting to get to the bottom of how matter came to dominate over antimatter.

Heavy ion collisions at the Large Hadron Collider generate conditions conducive to the formation of hypernuclei and their ...

Hypernuclei are rarely found in nature and are difficult to create in the lab. CERN's LHC has reported spotting two ...

In the Big Bang, matter and antimatter should have been created in equal amounts. But fast forward 13.8 billion years to the ...

"one gram of antihydrogen could ideally power 23 space shuttles." All this raises the question—why don't we have these awesome propulsion systems yet? The simple answer is that antimatter is ...