A century after their discovery, cosmic rays—particles of extreme energy originating from the far reaches of the ...
A dead star accelerates protons to extreme speeds, shedding light on the origin of the most energetic cosmic rays.
The GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung and the international accelerator facility FAIR have made an important ...
A photography student at a university has created unique works of art using cosmic rays high above the earth. Tom Liggett, who is studying BA (Hons) Photography at Arts University Bournemouth sends ...
Two major Chinese-led astronomy projects have yielded breakthroughs in understanding cosmic rays. LHAASO detected record-breaking ultra-high-energy gamma rays from the binary system LS I +61° 303, ...
A jetliner was nearly knocked out of the sky and sent plummeting to a deadly crash that would have killed all onboard by a bizarre attack from outer space – an explosive burst of cosmic rays sent ...
China’s Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO) has detected ultra-high-energy gamma rays above 100 TeV from the binary system LS I +61° 303, confirming it as the first known UHE gamma-ray ...
An international research team led by scientists from the Technion Faculty of Physics presents a first-of-its-kind measurement of cosmic rays located at the core of the galactic nebula Barnard 68. The ...
"First predicted by Askaryan in 1962, this radiation has its origin in the netnegative charge generated in the moving shower ...
NASA's Artemis I mission takes a selfie of the Orion capsule on its way to the moon. Travel beyond the Earth's atmosphere and magnetic fields involves exposure to high levels of radiation from the sun ...
Radio sensors at South Pole suggest arrays could record neutrinos of unprecedented energies over hundreds of cubic kilometres ...