Astronomers have made a historic discovery by directly detecting cosmic rays deep inside a dense, starless molecular cloud.
Many massive stars explode as supernovae. If cosmic-ray baths are common in such environments, then the thermal histories that shaped Earth's interior may be common as well. This realization has ...
It's 1961, and four intrepid cosmic explorers journey to space under the leadership of Reed Richards, where they encounter cosmic rays that change them forever. But what are cosmic rays?
Michigan State University astrophysicists are closing in on one of space science’s biggest mysteries: where the galaxy’s most energetic particles come from. Their studies uncovered a pulsar wind ...
Milestone results released by the Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO) on November 16 have solved a decades-old mystery about the cosmic ray energy spectrum—which shows a sharp decrease ...