The study of cosmic rays and heliospheric physics bridges our understanding of high‐energy particles from distant astrophysical sources and the dynamic environment shaped by the solar wind and ...

Three years of radiation data collected on the far side of the moon show that Earth’s magnetic field still reaches the lunar ...

Researchers have detected an extremely energetic cosmic ray from an unknown source in the universe. The detection of a cosmic ray with such high energy is "exceedingly rare" and the latest discovery, ...

Australia's bid to detect elusive dark matter has taken a major step forward, with new research confirming that cosmic ...

The physicist César Lattes, who is honored today (July 11) in a Google Doodle, is famous across Latin America for his discovery of the pion — a subatomic particle produced by shockwaves from exploding ...

Thu, February 6, 2025 at 7:00 PM UTC On Earth, the Sun may seem the same every dawn that it rises and every dusk that it sets, but our star actually goes through solar cycles of fluctuations that each ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Space scientists seeking to understand the enigmatic origins of powerful cosmic rays have detected an extremely rare, ...

An incredibly fast-moving particle from space recently arrived on Earth, and physicists are rushing to figure out what it is and where it came from. Called the Amaterasu particle, after the Shinto ...

But before an expensive mission such as this can be launched, the technology employed in it needs to be tested. Scheduled for ...

Don’t look for a flashy office with a big, mahogany boardroom table. The only mark of the Bartol Research Institute’s presence at the University of Delaware is a small, nondescript sign outside its ...

The investigation of cosmic rays and their potential connection with dark matter occupies a central role in contemporary astrophysics. Recent experimental and theoretical advances have refined our ...

Energetic particles that arise when cosmic rays hit Earth’s atmosphere could help assess hidden damage to buildings in Ukraine after the war. Primordial black holes may be exploding throughout the ...