cosmic rays

A device that can detect particles arriving from space does not necessarily require a multimillion-dollar laboratory. A compact…

Physicists at CERN have directly measured proton-oxygen collisions at 9.62 TeV per nucleon pair, closely recreating an important…

IceCube has produced the first neutrino image of the Milky Way, revealing high-energy particle activity concentrated along our…

On the evening of October 15, 1991, the University of Utah’s Fly’s Eye detector at Dugway Proving Ground…

A new study of two supernova remnants, the debris left behind after stars explode, suggests the explosions came…

In 2021, scientists detected a cosmic ray entering Earth’s atmosphere with as much kinetic energy as a fast-moving…

For years, scientists have searched for the sources of the most energetic particles in our galaxy, cosmic rays…

For the first time, astronomers using NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have traced a budding outflow of gas…

Extreme turbulence on a flight from Mexico to New Jersey which left at least 15 passengers injured could…

A student built a particle detector for just $100; the pocket-sized device can track invisible particles raining down from space at light’s speed; it is now being used in high-altitude balloon missions and major physics experiments