Cosmic particles with phenomenal energy have puzzled scientists for decades. A new theory may finally unveil their origin.

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A groundbreaking discovery has rocked the field of neutrino astronomy—scientists have detected an ultra-high-energy neutrino ...

A new paper provides scientists with a groundbreaking tool for understanding cataclysmic events. Physicist Glennys Farrar has ...

Cosmic rays are protons or atomic nuclei that travel ... BIMAP-3D "provides an unprecedented capability in high-resolution, 3D lightning source mapping and source polarization detection for ...

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 ...

The Milky Way, our home galaxy, is part of a different supercluster called Laniakea, which, at 500 million light-years wide, ...

The origin of high-energy cosmic rays that travel through space and reach Earth is one of the greatest unsolved mysteries in astrophysics. Recently, black hole X-ray binaries, consisting of a black ...

Here, the ultra-fine particle detectors are almost isolated from the noise of the universe, the cosmic rays: high-energy particles coming from the Sun, supernovae and other galaxies. When these rays ...

Moon dust is quickly becoming a magic material, from which oxygen and other elements such as titanium can be extracted, that ...

If weakly magnetized ultra-relativistic shocks are disfavoured as high-energy particle accelerators in general, the search for potential sources of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays can be narrowed.