A colossal cosmic ray, dubbed Amaterasu, struck Earth in 2021, baffling scientists with its immense power and unknown origin.
A long-standing cosmic mystery is beginning to yield new clues as researchers uncover a strikingly consistent pattern in the ...
The Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO) has made a breakthrough in exploring the extreme universe. For the ...
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 ...
A dead star accelerates protons to extreme speeds, shedding light on the origin of the most energetic cosmic rays.
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, ...
The GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung and the international accelerator facility FAIR have made an important ...
LHAASO has uncovered that micro-quasars, black holes feeding on companion stars, are powerful PeV particle accelerators. Their jets produce ultra-high-energy gamma rays and protons that exceed ...
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 ...
The reason photographic darkrooms are needed is because almost any amount of light can ruin the film or the photographic paper before they are fixed. Until then these things are generally kept in ...