The IceCube neutrino detector has allowed researchers to resolve a debate about what types of particles make up ...

This progress means that, for the first time, complicated astrophysical events like shocks and turbulence can be studied in a ...

Scientists have used ultracold atoms to successfully demonstrate a novel method of particle acceleration that could unlock a ...

Two international teams zoned in on a potential answer to a decades-long mystery surrounding ephemeral cosmic X-rays.

Scientists have used ultracold atoms to successfully demonstrate a novel method of particle acceleration that could unlock a ...

Astronomers have traced a mysterious blast of X-rays to a star that, like a cosmic action hero, just refused to die.

Scientists have observed the mechanism responsible for generating cosmic rays in a laboratory for the first time – a significant milestone in astrophysics.

Scientists from UCL and the University of Cambridge have revealed that "space ice"—long thought to be completely ...

New research published by Michigan State University astrophysicists could help scientists answer a century-old question: Where did galactic cosmic rays come from?

Collaboration has obtained a high-precision cosmic-ray boron spectrum in the energy range of 10 GeV/n–8 TeV/n, and discovered ...

Cosmic rays may play a role in triggering lightning, a new study suggests, offering an out-of-this-world answer to a long-standing mystery.

There's too much antimatter in cosmic rays, showers of charged particles that pelt Earth. Could this be explained by annihilating dark matter? If so, does it point to the existence of WIMPs?