A new study has revealed an unexpected link between solar storms and the flux of high-energy cosmic rays arriving at Earth.

Scientists studying mysterious ultra-powerful cosmic rays have uncovered a surprising hidden pattern that could finally help explain where these particles come from. Using the DAMPE space telescope, ...

A study published in Physical Review Letters by a research team at Penn State University offers a potential explanation. Led ...

Millions of light-years away, millions of years ago, a star exploded. In this violent process, it ejected incredible amounts ...

For more than 60 years, physicists have chased one of the universe's most stubborn puzzles: where do the most energetic particles ever detected come from? A new study published May 7, 2026, in ...

The mysterious Amaterasu particle may not be a proton at all. New research suggests that some of the most extreme cosmic rays could be ultraheavy atomic nuclei, heavier than iron, which are better ...

Cosmic rays (CRs) are energetic particles traveling through space at speeds close to that of light. They consist of atomic nuclei, electrons, positrons, high-energy gamma rays, and neutrinos, and are ...