Astronomers have detected an enormous γ-ray bubble that could be a source of the Milky Way’s most powerful cosmic rays — high-energy particles that rain down on Earth from space. The ...

High-energy particles from space constantly bombard Earth at near light speed. But where do these cosmic rays come from?

A cosmic object in the shape of a glowing question mark has photobombed one of the latest images captured by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope — and scientists think they know what it might be ...

NASA's Roman Space Telescope will look all the way back to cosmic dawn 400 million years after the Big Bang to discover how the universe fundamentally changed at this crucial point in its history.

Xiaochun He and his students have developed a detector to measure cosmic rays and investigate how space weather can impact our changing climate. It’s just one of his research projects at the ...

Other experts, for example, believe cosmic rays are blips of stardust crashing through space, the product of violent supernovas illuminating the universe. The IceCube Neutrino Observatory in ...

SPACE: Cosmic Challenge. 4 minute read. TIME. January 12, 1959 12:00 AM GMT-5. S treaking through space, out of the gravitational pull of man’s world, past the moon, toward an orbit around the ...

In future, it might also be used to shield astronauts from the hazard of deadly cosmic radiation on long space voyages. One of the major hazards of space travel is prolonged exposure to radiation.

Space scientists have dubbed the merger of two galaxies a “cosmic guitar.” A new Hubble Space Telescope image captures Arp 105, a stunning ongoing union between an elliptical galaxy and a ...