BEIJING, Feb. 20 (Xinhua) -- Chinese researchers have developed a novel model to explain the origin of an ultra-long gamma-ray burst (GRB), challenging the conventional understanding of these violent ...

When a stone sits on the Earth’s surface, cosmic rays quietly pepper it, leaving behind rare isotopes like tiny time stamps.

Michigan State University has inaugurated the K500 Chip Testing Facility, which will help make microchips more reliable in high-radiation environments and increase U.S. capacity for radiation effects ...

Chris Hemsworth will return as Thor in Avengers: Doomsday, but the actor revealed plans for the character's MCU future that will delight fans.

The Hubble and Chandra space telescopes are hunting for rogue black holes wandering through dwarf galaxies, which could ...

This week, tensions between the United States and Iran have escalated as additional U.S. warships and aircraft deploy across the Middle East.

The KM3NeT collaboration is a large research group involved in the operation of a neutrino telescope network in the deep Mediterranean Sea, with the aim of detecting high-energy neutrino events. These ...

On Jan. 31, 1958, Explorer 1 became the first satellite launched by the United States. Its primary science instrument, a cosmic ray detector, was designed to measure the radiation environment in Earth ...

New dating methods have revealed that Homo erectus may have arrived in East Asia earlier than thought.

Fresh dating of Homo Erectus fossils suggests ancient humans reached East Asia far earlier than once believed.