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We still don't fully understand what triggers lightning. A new study suggests that showers of cosmic rays may be the missing link.

However, in 2023, another ultra-high-energy cosmic ray with 75% of this record energy was also reported. Protons with energies above fifty billion times the proton rest-mass energy lose energy over ...

According to our knowledge of the formation of atoms, the primary particles of ultra-high-energy cosmic radiation can consist of all elements from hydrogen to iron. Due to its large mass ...

Most matter in the Universe consists of plasmas interspersed within magnetic fields, affecting the transport of charged ...

The black hole examined by the team is no small cosmic object. It is more than a billion times the mass of our Sun. Despite ...

Generated when high-energy particles in space strike the atmosphere above Earth, muons have been used to monitor magma movement in a volcano, detect empty cavities in the Great Pyramid of Giza in ...

it's still a ton of high-energy radiation. So we're going to have to keep track of that. And lastly, we have to contend with the cosmic rays, which are not rays at all. We're talking protons ...

A future Moon base is closer to reality than ever before. With missions like Artemis 3 planned for 2026 and a lunar outpost ...