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

The display is based not on whiffs of pheromones, but on showers of cosmic rays. These remnants of energy from the sun and stars collide with molecules in Earth's atmosphere and break up, creating ...

Temperatures and pressures in the cosmic plasma The solar wind consists of charged particles and is permeated by a magnetic field. In the analysis of this plasma, researchers investigate two types ...

The lowest-energy cosmic rays, made up of hydrogen atoms that have been blown apart by the sun into free electrons and protons, make up the solar wind ... looking for a spray of particles that ...

The astrophysicist uses AI to accelerate the analysis of data from an observatory that researches cosmic radiation. "The ...

Each of the 1,600 particle recorders act as a sensor. When a cosmic ray hits Earth’s atmosphere it “sprays” particles. The more powerful the ray, the bigger the “spray of particles ...

The most abundant, lowest-energy cosmic rays consist of particles of solar wind that rain down on Earth’s atmosphere after spiralling in the planet’s magnetic field. Cosmic rays of much higher ...

Particles raining down from space offer 3-D views inside swirling tropical storms. Muons created from cosmic rays that smash into Earth’s upper atmosphere have revealed the inner workings of ...

First discovered in 1912, cosmic rays can hit our planet with staggering energies reaching 10²⁰ electronvolts (eV). That's way more energetic than the particles accelerated at the Large Hadron ...

Since then, we have spotted many similar particles. Huge ground-based detectors have provided us with maps of where they might come from, together with a shortlist of the extreme cosmic objects ...

To reach this conclusion, scientists studied millions of data points captured by a cosmic ray detector on the ISS. The most energetic particles in the universe appear to emerge from sources within ...

But if large, water-absorbent particles of sea salt—abundant in ocean spray—are present ... caused by local weather conditions, such as wind and temperature, might also play a role in how ...