When a stone sits on the Earth’s surface, cosmic rays quietly pepper it, leaving behind rare isotopes like tiny time stamps. Bury the stone deep enough, and that cosmic “printing press” shuts off.

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 ...

Here’s the thing: science is supposed to feel like this occasionally. A good model explains most observations and makes ...

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 ...

In July 1954, Enrico Fermi took a beautiful and possibly quite dangerous trip to the French Alps as part of a group from The Summer School at Les Houches. The rest of this post will take a closer look ...

An unusually intense signal from deep space has once again focused scientific attention on one of the universe’s most extreme ...

At the same time, a current of cold electrons travels toward the heated plasma from the opposite direction. When the two meet, the plasma develops filament-shaped instabilities that SLAC’s facilities ...