Cosmic particles with phenomenal energy have puzzled scientists for decades. A new theory may finally unveil their origin.

New research suggests that the largest cosmic structure is even bigger and closer to Earth than we knew. It goes against ...

In a dramatic leap for astrophysics, Chinese researchers have recreated a key cosmic process in the lab: the acceleration of ...

A new paper provides scientists with a groundbreaking tool for understanding cataclysmic events. Physicist Glennys Farrar has ...

Researchers from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) achieved the first direct laboratory observation of ...

Astronomers have long been puzzled by two strange phenomena at the heart of our galaxy. First, the gas in the central ...

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That something else, Shao believes, is cosmic ray showers. Cosmic ray showers are cascades of high-energy particles triggered in the atmosphere by cosmic rays — bursts of charged hydrogen nuclei ...

A story that begins with three animals riding in a balloon ends with the discovery of protons impacting our atmosphere with ...

If dark matter is creating positrons in the CMZ, those particles will eventually slow down and eventually annihilate with ...

meaning the hydrogen molecules there are being split into charged particles (electrons and nuclei) at a much faster rate than expected. This could be the result of sources such as cosmic rays and ...