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What flings mysteriously powerful particles called 'cosmic rays' at Earth?
High-energy cosmic rays, 10 million times more powerful than particles accelerated in Earth's strongest atom smasher, may hide a superheavy secret that is the key to unlocking a 60-year-old puzzle.
The Whirlpool Galaxy comes alive | Space photo of the day for May 13, 2026
M51, also known as the Whirlpool Galaxy, looks incredible in this new snap by the James Webb Space Telescope.
'Like putting a microscope into the core of the sun': World's 1st space-based neutrino detector launches to orbit
The world's first space-based neutrino detector launched to space this month to study elusive neutrino particles that constantly bombard Earth.
Uranus and Neptune could be full of rocks, new study suggests
"Rather than 'icy' or 'rocky,' we should simply call them minor giants."
Thousands of deaths per year caused by invisible wildfire pollutant, satellite data shows
Wildfire-derived ozone appears responsible for 2,045 excess deaths, on average, per year across the U.S., 20 years of satellite data reveal.
Scientists found 10,000 possible exoplanets hiding in NASA data
It would appear we now have 10,091 candidate exoplanets to go through and confirm.
3D dark energy map is mind-blowing | Space photo of the day for April 16, 2026
Every single tiny point on the map is a galaxy.
A worst-case solar storm could trigger panic buying and public unrest, report warns
Scientists warn that extreme space weather could influence human behavior, from panic buying to protests and misinformation.
A worst-case solar storm could knock out satellites, GPS and power grids, report warns
Scientists outline how a once-in-a-century solar storm could disrupt the technology modern society depends on.
Large Hadron Collider gives scientists their best look yet at conditions right after the Big Bang
"This is the first time we have observed, for a large interval in momentum and for multiple species, this flow pattern in a subset of proton collisions in which an unusually large number of particles are produced."