Cosmic photon timing measurements help constrain possible departures from relativity, with no violation detected in the ...

Proton-oxygen collisions at the LHC reveal how extreme cosmic rays trigger particle showers when they slam into Earth’s atmosphere.

An instrument built to study cosmic rays has turned out to be a powerful tool for investigating thunderstorms. Earlier ...

Every second, particles zip through your body at nearly the speed of light. They rain down from a storm high in the sky, where cosmic rays, a powerful type of interstellar matter, are constantly ...

Scientists have recreated how high-energy cosmic rays enter the Earth’s atmosphere and collide with our planet’s gases.

An instrument built half a world away from any meteorological laboratory, designed to catch particles arriving from deep space, has become one of the most powerful tools available for probing the ...

Using a particle accelerator, an NYU professor partnered with an international team of researchers in Switzerland to recreate ...

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 ...

For the first time, the Tibet ASγ Experiment has successfully measured magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence on scales below one parsec (approximately 3.3 light-years) within the gamma-ray halo ...

An open-source Raspberry Pi Pico detector counts muons from cosmic rays for under $100, bringing particle physics to the desktop.

New observations of cosmic rays that distinguish between hydrogen and helium find unexpected complexity in a long-observed spectral feature. Distinguishing between different cosmic-ray particles in ...