Read article 'Gravitational waves: a golden era'
Azadeh Maleknejad and Fabrizio Rompineve explain why precision measurements of the gravitational-wave spectrum are essential to explore particle physics beyond the reach of colliders.
Read article 'Hints of low-frequency gravitational waves found'
Pulsar timing arrays have spotted the first evidence for a stochastic gravitational-wave background.
Read article 'Joined-up thinking in vacuum science'
CERN is home to an international effort to develop the next generation of gravitational-wave telescopes.
Read article 'A soft spot for heavy metal'
Together with colleagues from CERN’s Vacuum, Surfaces and Coatings and Mechanical and Materials Engineering groups, Audrey Vichard is working on R&D for the Einstein Telescope.
Read article 'DAMPE confirms cosmic-ray complexity'
The space-based Chinese–European Dark Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE) reports detailed insights into the various spectral "breaks" in cosmic-ray spectra.
Read article 'CERN shares beampipe know-how for gravitational-wave observatories'
Participants of a recent CERN workshop discussed vacuum technologies for next-generation gravitational-wave observatories such as the Einstein Telescope.
Read article 'X-ray source could reveal new class of supernovae'
Data from eROSITA and XMM Newton prove the existence of white dwarfs that accumulate helium from a companion star at a steady rate.
Read article 'Euclid to link the largest and smallest scales'
The science goals of the European Space Agency's newest explorer, Euclid, align closely with some of the biggest mysteries in particle physics.
Read article 'TeV photons challenge standard explanations'
The brightest gamma-ray burst ever detected appears to have produced an emission that is difficult to explain.
Read article 'Statistics meets gamma-ray astronomy'
As a subfield of astroparticle physics, gamma-ray astronomy, investigates many questions rooted in particle physics in an astrophysical context. A prominent example is the search for self-annihilating...
