A long-standing cosmic mystery is beginning to yield new clues as researchers uncover a strikingly consistent pattern in the ...

Detection by Askaryan Radio Array holds promise for future research into sources, nature of cosmic rays and neutrinos ...

Michigan State University astrophysicists are closing in on one of space science’s biggest mysteries: where the galaxy’s most energetic particles come from. Their studies uncovered a pulsar wind ...

Mars, Europa and Enceladus are the three most promising locations in the solar system to search for life living off cosmic rays. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Galactic cosmic rays — high-energy particles from outside the solar system — could theoretically power life on certain frigid worlds. The radiation can trigger chemical reactions underground, whose ...

A complete survey of all the particle and antiparticle activity that goes on during the Sun’s 11-year cycle has found previously unknown ways these particles behave. Cosmic rays coming from outside ...

While the San Francisco 49ers and the Baltimore Ravens were butting heads and other body parts a couple of Sundays ago, they were simultaneously taking a whole different type of pounding, though they ...

Scientists with the Askaryan Radio Array in Antarctica have confirmed the first detection of in-ice Askaryan radiation from high-energy cosmic rays, a phenomenon predicted in 1962. The 13 recorded ...

According to a radiation weather expert, a stream of high-energy particles from a supernova explosion may have triggered a sudden loss of altitude on a passenger plane. In late October, a JetBlue ...

A negative film which Tom Liggett developed after it returned from space captured some images believed to be created by ...