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 ...
Kolkata: New Jersey-based couple and senior alumni of the 1973 physics batch of Presidency College (now a university), Tapan ...
Roughly 42,000 years ago, Earth’s magnetic field weakened dramatically during the Laschamps geomagnetic excursion, allowing more cosmic radiation to reach the atmosphere. In a peer‑reviewed study of ...
Odd bursts, shifting expansion rates, and oversized early galaxies are pushing astronomers to refine physics, not rewrite it, ...
Fresh dating of Homo Erectus fossils suggests ancient humans reached East Asia far earlier than once believed.
The Facility for Rare Isotope Beams at Michigan State University is opening the K500 Chip Testing Facility, a new national ...
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 ...
Long strands of glowing gas stretch behind a distant galaxy, dotted with pockets of newborn stars. The shape looks almost ...
Understanding how massive stars evolve and return energy, momentum, and metals to their surroundings is a central problem in astrophysics, with far-reaching ...