And it had traveled from somewhere far beyond our galaxy.

The coming years will be crucial for validating or disproving this hypothesis, with improvements in gravitational wave and cosmic ray detectors. Neutron star mergers are cosmic factories producing ...

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 ...

Cosmic rays and their byproduct ... Researchers plan to use muon detectors over large areas or portable versions to track severe weather patterns. The findings could enhance und ...

In space, energetic neutrinos are usually paired with energetic gamma rays. Galaxy NGC 1068, however, emits strong neutrinos and weak gamma rays, which presents a puzzle for scientists to solve. A new ...

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

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

Buried deep in the ice in the Antarctic are "eyes" that can see elementary particles called neutrinos, and what they've ...

Researchers discover new process for gold production in universe, challenging previous beliefs about element origins and ...

Charged particles can be deflected by magnetic fields in our galaxy and in intergalactic space. Such particles are detected by cosmic ray detectors, but their direction no longer indicates their ...

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

SAN JOSE, Calif., April 15, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- TDK Corporation (TSE: 6762) announces that it has developed the world's first* "Spin Photo Detector," a photo-spintronic conversion element ...