Cosmic rays traveling through space may provide enough energy to sustain life even in incredibly cold and dark environments, a new study suggests. The staggeringly energetic neutrino likely came from ...

A new study has revealed an unexpected link between solar storms and the flux of high-energy cosmic rays arriving at Earth.

Cosmic rays seen at Earth show a wide range of particle energies, from 10 7 electron-volts (eV) to more than 10 20 eV, the latter being about the same as the kinetic energy of a 450 gram football ...

Scientists studying mysterious ultra-powerful cosmic rays have uncovered a surprising hidden pattern that could finally help explain where these particles come from. Using the DAMPE space telescope, ...

The mysterious Amaterasu particle may not be a proton at all. New research suggests that some of the most extreme cosmic rays could be ultraheavy atomic nuclei, heavier than iron, which are better ...

A study published in Physical Review Letters by a research team at Penn State University offers a potential explanation. Led by Kohta Murase, a professor of physics and astronomy, the investigators ...

More than 600 feet below the surface of Antarctica, ultrasensitive detectors picked up the tracks of cosmic rays crashing down from outer space. The Askaryan Radio Array is a group of sensors drilled ...

"Ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays can only be accelerated by some of the most powerful sources in the universe. When we detect individual cosmic-ray particles such as the Amaterasu particle here on Earth, ...

According to a radiation weather expert, a stream of high-energy particles from a supernova explosion may have triggered a sudden loss of altitude on a passenger plane. In late October, a JetBlue ...