In its first attempt to study the direction of the light or the solar wind’s movement, the spacecraft captured color-coded ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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

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.

These magnetic bubbles shield the planets against solar wind, a stream of energetic particles and gas that ... showed that Uranus experienced a rare cosmic occurrence just before the flyby.

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 ...

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 ...