For more than ten years, the Borexino detector located 1,400 meters below surface of the Italian Gran Sasso massif has been exploring the interior of our Sun. During this time, the project has ...

In December last year, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe flew 3.8 million miles above the sun’s surface. This is the closest a man-made object has ever gotten to the sun. While the mission marked a ...

Photomultiplier tubes from the LUX-ZEPLIN experiment at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in South Dakota. The LZ experiment is designed to detect dark matter particles from flashes of light ...

Scientists have recorded a rare interaction between solar neutrinos and carbon for the first time. The result marks an important step in understanding how low-energy neutrinos behave inside matter.

About 99 percent of the Sun’s energy emitted as neutrinos is produced through nuclear reaction sequences initiated by proton-proton (pp) fusion in which hydrogen is converted into helium, say ...

Somehow, neutrinos went from just another random particle to becoming tiny monsters that require multi-billion-dollar facilities to understand. And there’s just enough mystery surrounding them that we ...

Neutrinos are particles that are notoriously hard to detect, but observations of a process called coherent elastic neutrino–nucleus scattering could enable physicists to develop better ways of ...

Humanity has worked itself into a position where we can detect a single high-energy particle from space and wonder where in ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Of the 100 trillion neutrinos that pass through you every second, most come from the sun or Earth’s atmosphere. But a smattering of the ...