In a groundbreaking discovery that has sent shockwaves through the astrophysics community, scientists have detected the highest-energy neutrino ever recorded—a particle that travels nearly at the ...

When analyzing early universe data, the Standard Model of Cosmology suggests that the universe should be more “clumpy” that ...

By combining different kinds of observations, cosmologists have shown that what we see is more easily explained if neutrinos, ...

The handheld particle detector CosmicWatch is roughly the size of a box of animal crackers. Every time a muon passes through ...

The giant protoplanetary disk offers clues to how gas and dust organize themselves around a star to form planets.

The Kukulkán pyramid in Chichén Itzá is scanned in a detailed search for hidden chambers, making sure not to damage the Mayan ...

You can't see, feel, hear, taste or smell them, but tiny particles from space are constantly raining down on us.

Scientists have found hints that ghostly neutrinos may interact with dark matter. The unexpected link could help explain ...

A complete survey of all the particle and antiparticle activity that goes on during the Sun’s 11-year cycle has found previously unknown ways these particles behave. Cosmic rays coming from outside ...

Cosmic ray air showers are produced when high-energy cosmic particles enter Earth’s atmosphere and interact with atmospheric nuclei, generating cascades of secondary particles. These extensive air ...

"You know we haven't done enough research into the effects of cosmic rays!" Ben may have been right way back when Stan Lee and Jack Kirby created him and the rest of the Fantastic Four 64 years ago, ...