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 ...

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 ...

Kolkata: New Jersey-based couple and senior alumni of the 1973 physics batch of Presidency College (now a university), Tapan ...

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.

An international team of scientists led by the Institute of Cosmos Sciences at the University of Barcelona (ICCUB) and the Institute of Space Studies ...

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 ...

Odd bursts, shifting expansion rates, and oversized early galaxies are pushing astronomers to refine physics, not rewrite it, ...

The Facility for Rare Isotope Beams at Michigan State University is opening the K500 Chip Testing Facility, a new national ...

Findings suggest human ancestors spread across Asia earlier, faster and possibly more successfully than commonly believed ...

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

Long strands of glowing gas stretch behind a distant galaxy, dotted with pockets of newborn stars. The shape looks almost ...