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

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 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 ...

Q&A: Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer Samuel Ting, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), is the driving force behind a particle detector that is designed to ...

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 ...

The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) surveys the sky for high-energy particles, or cosmic rays. It has seen evidence for what could be dark matter colliding with itself in a process known as " ...

Run from a centre at Cern, the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) aims to spot dark matter and exotic antimatter. The astronauts who installed it on the space station in 2011 are in Geneva to see ...

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 ...