Cosmic rays are extremely fast, charged particles that travel through space at nearly the speed of light. The Amaterasu ...

Where starlight doesn't reach, new things are born: For the first time, an international research team has directly measured ...

It's 1961, and four intrepid cosmic explorers journey to space under the leadership of Reed Richards, where they encounter ...

Stars and planets form in cold, dense clouds of gas and dust, where cosmic rays are the dominant source of ionization and heating. Cosmic rays are high-energy particles, including protons, electrons, ...

< Starburst galaxy Messier 82 (M82), located 12 million light-years away Copyright: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, A. Bolatto (UMD) ...

Cosmogenic krypton in zircon crystals reveals millions of years of erosion, sediment transport, and landscape evolution in southern Australia.

CERN's ALICE collaboration reveals how fragile deuterons survive high-energy collisions, impacting models of cosmic rays and ...

In October, a New Jersey–bound JetBlue flight suddenly plummeted thousands of feet. Experts were puzzled until they discovered that cosmic rays caused the incident. Retired airline captain, flight ...

An international research team led by scientists from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology has achieved the first direct measurement of cosmic rays deep inside a star-forming nebula. Using ...

We show how this "cosmic clock" uncovers the evolution of rivers, coasts and habitats.

A space and radiation expert claims a JetBlue flight incident that left at least 15 people hospitalized may have been caused by "cosmic rays" The statement contradicts an explanation from Airbus, the ...

One such cloud is called Barnard 68, located about 500 light years from Earth in the constellation Ophiuchus. Its interior is 9 Kelvin (−264 °C) cold and so dense (and thus opaque) that light can ...