Want to see cosmic rays? You might need a lot of expensive ... To test the idea that this is from some external source, he takes a smoke detector with a radioactive sensor and places it near ...

An X-ray observatory used to study neutron stars is “back in the black” and a cosmic ray detector is ready for possible future upgrades after two astronauts completed a spacewalk outside the ...

Scientists are one step closer to uncovering the elusive nature of dark matter with a breakthrough detector that could ...

For decades, astronomers were certain that half of the ordinary matter in the universe — protons and neutrons, the building ...

Proving that the results reflected the flux of cosmic-ray muons wasn’t difficult. To turn the stacked pair of GM counters ...

Australia's SABRE South dark matter experiment reveals full design, aims to confirm DAMA/LIBRA results with data from the ...

(One particular cosmic ray, detected in 1991 and nicknamed the “Oh-My-God particle,” was going very nearly the speed of light when it smacked into a detector in Utah.) That there are “hot spots” of ...

A neutrino telescope found a neutrino, which is what it's supposed to do. But why did this mysterious particle have much more ...

On April 9, 2024, a community of refugee students and their families, scientists, educators and policymakers celebrated an event three years in the making—the installation of five cosmic ray detectors ...

In the latest study, researchers explain how a detector, which they dub a cosmic car radio, could alert scientists when it finds the frequency of the axion. Known as an Axion quasiparticle (AQ ...