Ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays are the most energetic and rarest of particles in the universe – and also one of the most enigmatic. Benjamin Skuse reveals how cosmic-ray mysteries are continuing to test ...

In The Fantastic Four: First Steps, Franklin Richards is born with the Power Cosmic, an unlimited energy source linked to Galactus. Reed and Sue’s exposure to cosmic radiation during conception causes ...

Final results from the University of Utah's High Resolution Fly's Eye cosmic ray observatory show that the most energetic particles in the universe rarely reach Earth at full strength because they ...

Particles smaller than an atom hurtle through the universe nearly at the speed of light, blasted into space from something, somewhere, in the cosmos. A scientific collaboration of the Pierre Auger ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Collaboration MPIK/H.E.S.S. After over a decade of meticulous data collection, scientists ...

This may seem like the cry of a panicking news reporter in a lurid sci-fi tale, but it’s actually a scientific fact — albeit a slightly hyperbolic one. Mysterious cosmic rays traveling at speeds ...

Active galactic nuclei are the most likely candidate for the source of the highest-energy cosmic rays that hit Earth. Astronomers found that the sources of the highest-energy particles are not ...

Ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays twist and turn on their way to Earth, which has made it nearly impossible to identify the colossal monsters that create them. In the 1930s, the French physicist Pierre ...

Roughly a century ago, scientists began to realize that some of the radiation we detect in Earth’s atmosphere is not local in origin. This eventually gave rise to the discovery of cosmic rays — ...

One of the great mysteries in science is determining not only what's out there, but what creates the signals we detect here on Earth. For over a century, we've known that zipping through the Universe ...

Cosmic rays. Artwork of high-energy particles and radiation from a star in deep space (cosmic rays) impacting molecules and atoms in the Earths atmosphere. These primary impacts cause a secondary ...

In 1931, a hoax claimed that Nikola Tesla had created a car powered by a “cosmic energy power receiver,” but was quickly dismissed due to lack of evidence. A young scientist from Ellington just ...