The 2018 proton season has started well ahead of schedule

The Large Hadron Collider has initiated the collision of proton beams for the first time this year

Protons have been circulating in the Large Hadron Collider since Friday 30 March, marking the start of the machine’s seventh year of operation

The Year-End Technical Stop drew to a close on 9 March. Read about the LHC plans the last year of Run 2

As CERN’s winter shutdown draws to a close, watch this video to see what has been going on underground

This year’s LHC performance workshop took place in Chamonix from 29 January to 1 February.

For 14 weeks this winter teams are carrying out maintenance and upgrade work on the LHC

CERN celebrates 25 years since the beginning of the LHC experimental programme

Participants in the annual LHCreate workshop presented their most recent exciting ideas during a two-day event at IdeaSquare

Before the LHC was shut down for the winter, the operators tested techniques under development for its successor, the High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC)

The LHC’s 2017 proton run has ended with record luminosity. The special runs will now take place before the winter shutdown.

With 19 days still to go, the LHC has reached its 2017 production target, delivering more than 45 inverse femtobarns to the experiments