In a significant breakthrough, scientists have unraveled the mystery of cosmic rays, linking the ‘knee’ formation in their ...

For decades, a sharp kink in the energy spectrum of particles raining down from space has taunted astrophysicists, hinting at ...

BEIJING -- Scientists using China's Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO) found that black holes, devouring material from their companion stars and producing jets, act as powerful ...

What mechanism accelerates cosmic rays to the 3 peta-electron-volt (PeV) range — over 1,000 times the energy of the world's most powerful man-made particle accelerators — causing a sharp decline in ...

Archaeologists have dated the lakefront Neolithic (7000–3200 b.c.) settlement of Dispilio in northern Greece using a method that involves detecting evidence of bursts of cosmic radiation in ancient ...

BEIJING, Nov. 17 (Xinhua) -- Scientists using China's Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO) found that black holes, devouring material from their companion stars and producing jets, act ...

You might think astronomers have seen it all, but the universe still throws us occasional new mysteries to keep us on our toes. They aren’t that unusual to spot—the universe is so big and GRBs are so ...

An international team of scientists, led by the University of Oxford, has achieved a world-first by creating plasma "fireballs" using the Super Proton Synchrotron accelerator at CERN, Geneva, to study ...