Imagine a super-advanced alien civilization that needs insane amounts of energy way beyond our puny solar panels and wind turbines to power their mega-cities, AI overlords, or whatever interstellar ...
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 ...
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 ...
An instrument built to study cosmic rays has turned out to be a powerful tool for investigating thunderstorms. Earlier ...
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, ...
Earth is constantly being bombarded by particles from space, but the most energetic arrivals are difficult to understand because scientists rarely observe them directly. Instead, researchers usually ...
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 ...