Want to see cosmic rays? You might need a lot of expensive exotic gear. Nah. [The ActionLab] shows how a cup of coffee or cocoa can show you cosmic rays — or something — with just the right ...

(We’ve since learned that they are particles, not rays, but the name stuck.) There are several ways to detect cosmic rays. You can look for them directly—whether on the ground or above the ...

“This first ever detection of a neutrino of hundreds of PeV opens a new ... These are ultra-rare particles created when high-energy cosmic rays — protons and atomic nuclei flying across the universe ...

In a study published in Physical Review Letters, the HESS consortium describes the detection of these record-breaking cosmic rays. Due to their energy loss during interstellar travel, these ...

The Earth is under constant bombardment from cosmic rays, most of them being nuclei ... How does CosmicWatch detect these muons? The working components of the detector consist of a plastic ...

For decades, astronomers were certain that half of the ordinary matter in the universe — protons and neutrons, the building ...

Scientists and space explorers have been on the hunt to determine where and how much ice is present on the Moon. Water ice ...

Scientists from the University of Tokyo and NEC Corp. noted that cosmic-ray muons readily pass through ... to monitor magma movement in a volcano, detect empty cavities in the Great Pyramid ...

The Milky Way, our home galaxy, is part of a different supercluster called Laniakea, which, at 500 million light-years wide, is dwarfed by the Hercules–Corona Borealis Great Wall. In fact, the team ...

Once JWST is in space, however, the noise level in NIRSpec exposures will be affected by the cosmic ray (CR) fluence at the JWST orbit and our ability to detect CR hits and to mitigate their effect.

In particular, merging galaxy clusters could help us better understand the physics of shock and cold fronts seen in the diffuse intra-cluster medium, the cosmic ray acceleration in clusters ...

Cosmic rays and their byproduct ... disturbed system with two subclusters and diffuse radio emission span... The detection of ultra-high-energy gamma rays by the Large High Altitude Air Shower ...