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 ...

Weaving a cosmic string. The main challenge is that we don’t have a GUT, let alone a Theory of Everything. We have candidate theories, like supersymmetry, to provide a GUT, but they've come up ...

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A view from space of a rainbow-like optical phenomenon called a glory, consisting of brilliant lines of color, taken by NASA's Aqua satellite on June 20, 2012. (Image credit: Jeff Schmaltz, LANCE ...

A stunning rainbow-colored cloud of gas surrounds two stars that battled in deep space several hundred years ago. Astronomers were able to observe the binary star system known as HD101584 by using ...

Space scientists seeking to understand the enigmatic origins of powerful cosmic rays have detected an extremely rare, ultra-high-energy particle that they believe traveled to Earth from beyond the ...

Galaxies from the cosmic noon. NASA/JWST/Backhaus. The James Webb Space Telescope's power allowed the team to peer through cosmic dust to see far enough into the past to observe galaxies during ...

Space scientists have dubbed the merger of two galaxies a “cosmic guitar.” A new Hubble Space Telescope image captures Arp ...

Researchers have used cosmic rays from deep space to create a powerful probe to investigate the hidden mysteries of the Great Pyramid of Giza. The team, including Fermilab High Energy Physics (HEP ...

The thought of orbiting Earth, floating in zero gravity, or gazing at the stars from the edge of space is no longer science fiction. Welcome to the era of cosmic travel: a frontier where the ...