Scientists may have found a new way to detect some of the universe's most mysterious objects, primordial black holes (PBHs), ...

The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer experiment seen during the STS-135 flyaround on July 19, 2011. Image was taken aboard space shuttle Atlantis after undocking on STS-135 Flight Day 12. In Space ...

Space shuttle Endeavour will deliver the $2 billion Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer to the International Space Station after it launches April 29. AMS will search for antimatter galaxies.

The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) got its original impetus from American politics. In 1993, the U.S. Congress cancelled construction of the Superconducting Supercollider ...

The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer has served during the last six years as a silent witness to the formation of the universe, quietly collecting about 100 billion cosmic rays, particles, and nuclei ...

Launched to the International Space Station in 2011 on the penultimate flight of the Space Shuttle, the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer has quietly been collecting data during the last six years ...

The long-awaited Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer-2 (AMS) arrived Aug. 26 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, secured in the belly of a U.S. Air Force C-5M cargo plane that arrived at the launch ...

Cosmic rays confound scientists once again. The latest analysis of data collected by the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) on board the International Space Station has revealed a surprising ...

The 7.5-ton patient in this case is the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, or AMS, the most expensive science instrument aboard the space station and one that was not designed to be serviced in orbit.

Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer-02, shown attached to the International Space Station, is a particle physics detector that collects information from cosmic sources that will help to advance scientists ...

Let that long-held breath out, folks. The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer has picked up a lot of mysterious antimatter in low Earth orbit – but that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s a sign of dark ...

The ambitious Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer is a more than 15,000-pound (6,900-kilogram) device searching for cosmic- rays — high-energy charged particles from outer space. The nearly $2 billion ...