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 ...
A new study has revealed an unexpected link between solar storms and the flux of high-energy cosmic rays arriving at Earth.
Tens of kilometers above Earth's surface, high-energy particles from outer space constantly strike the atmosphere, creating showers of energetic secondary particles that rain down from the sky.
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 ...
The discovery could transform how researchers monitor and forecast solar storms that have harmful effects on satellites, ...
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 ...