Scientists may have finally uncovered the mystery behind ultra-high-energy cosmic rays — the most powerful particles known in ...

Cosmic and terrestrial radiation can cause correlated errors in superconducting qubits, disrupting quantum coherence and ...

A new study reveals an intriguing possibility: asupernova explosion might have sent a surge of cosmic rays toward Earth ...

The sun is located about 26,000 light-years from the center of our galaxy, aka the Milky Way, and its orbit is close to ...

Living within a few miles of a nuclear power plant exposes someone to a small fraction of the radiation of an X-ray.

Muon beams can now be created in a device that is the length of a ruler.

He and a colleague, Tsung-Dao Lee, created a sensation in 1956 by proposing that one of the four forces of nature might ...

There are signs deep beneath the Pacific Ocean that an exploding star once sent cosmic rays blasting out towards Earth, and ...

The study revealed that muon scattering measurements lasting for just a few hours can predict nuclear material amounts in ...

The IceCube observatory detects possible sources of neutrinos in the galaxy NGC 1068, reinforcing the search for the origin ...

In many ways, Lina and Neriman's refugee journey from Iraq to Utah parallels that of a cosmic ray: covering great distances, ...

Standing on Earth and gazing out into the night sky, you’d think our Milky Way galaxy is relatively calm. Most nearby ...