Earth is under constant bombardment ... Despite their dramatic description, cosmic rays are actually pretty ordinary — they pass through our planet so regularly that during an average night's ...

Scientists at NTNU propose that powerful winds from supermassive black holes may be responsible for mysterious ...

The researchers found this cavity using muon tomography, which examines cosmic rays and their penetrations through solid objects ... fraction reaches ground level. Earth's magnetic field also ...

NTNU researchers may have found the answer to one of the big, unanswered questions in physics. The universe is full of ...

Cosmic radiation occasionally contains enormous amounts of energy, but we don’t know why or where this radiation comes from.

Dangerous cosmic rays will pass ... through space. These particles go so fast, they can penetrate easily through matter. The second source of cosmic rays is the sun. Solar flares and other solar ...

Scientists think these objects accelerate cosmic ray particles to high energies and send them out zooming through the Universe. When they slam into Earth's atmosphere, they are, briefly ...

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But it does have a few shortcomings, most notably not being able to pass through buildings ... navigate underground. "Cosmic-ray muons fall equally across the Earth and always travel at the ...

Scientists have harnessed the byproducts of cosmic rays to create the ... muPS consisted of four surface-level reference stations through which muons would pass before arriving at a receiver ...

Signals can also be reflected off surfaces like walls, interfered with by trees, and can't pass through buildings ... tampered with. "Cosmic-ray muons fall equally across the Earth and always ...