CERN is one of the world’s largest and most respected centers for scientific research, famous for making major breakthroughs in particle physics. The organization has announced a major new project.

The Large Hadron Collider, the world’s largest atom smasher, has shut down for a planned 4-year upgrade that will make it 10 times more sensitive than its initial version.

GENEVA (AP) — The research center that is home to the world's largest particle accelerator is celebrating its 70th anniversary on Tuesday, with the physicists who run it aiming to unlock secrets about ...

The world's most powerful particle accelerator will Monday shutter operations for four years of renovations to dramatically boost its collision-capacity and the potential for unlocking one of the ...

High-Luminosity LHC upgrade work has begun at CERN after the Large Hadron Collider logged its final collision on June 27, 2026, entering a four-year, $1.5 billion Long Shutdown 3 program to replace 1.

The next head of Europe's CERN physics laboratory said Thursday that he favored moving forward with plans for a giant particle collider far more powerful than the collider that discovered the famous ...

The NA64 experiment started operations at CERN's SPS North Area in 2016. Its aim is to search for unknown particles from a hypothetical "dark sector." For these searches, NA64 directs an electron beam ...

Buried deep underground, this extraordinary machine has already transformed humanity's understanding of the universe.

Head to Switzerland for a tour of CERN, the world’s largest particle physics research laboratory, to discover the secrets of the universe.

When Mark Thomson was 13, he read a book about the European Organization for Nuclear Research, better known as CERN, a particle physics lab whose remit was to interrogate the fabric of reality. The ...

The world's largest scientific machine—the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN—has shut down after completing a landmark ...