Two scientists recently wagered a bottle of whiskey. The bet? Whether we’ll find evidence of advanced extraterrestrial life in the next 15 years.

For every proton, there were over a billion others that annihilated away with an antimatter counterpart. So where did all that energy go?

Fantasy, meet statistics: The census comes to Middle-earth!

Today, the star-formation rate across the Universe is a mere trickle: just 3% of what it was at its peak. Here’s what it was like back then.

U.S. particle physicists recently recommended a list of major research projects that they hope will receive federal funding.