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

Researchers at the University of Reading in England found that when an especially fast-moving solar wind washed ... electrified by cosmic rays -- highly energized, fast-moving particles that ...

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 ...

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 ...

As distant stars explode, they expel large amounts of radiation into interstellar space in the form of highly energized particles known as cosmic rays ... how the solar wind reaches the Earth.

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 ...