BEIJING -- A group of Chinese and international scientists conducted a high-precision measurement of the very-high-energy diffuse gamma-ray emissions from the Galactic plane using the data from ...

Astrophysicists understand the origins of most cosmic rays. Any time there is an energetic event in the universe, it's likely to produce a shower of cosmic rays. This can include supernovas, merging ...

Researchers discover collisionless shock waves as cosmic engines accelerating subatomic particles in space to extreme speeds.

The diffuse Galactic gamma-ray emission is a very important tool used to study the propagation and interaction of cosmic rays in the Milky Way. Previously, observations from ground-based ...

If you have ever repeated the same oath so many times in one day that you’ve bored even yourself uttering it then you’ll ...

When these particles slam into Earth’s atmosphere, they create a shower of secondary particles that can reach the surface. Some cosmic rays are so powerful that they can even mess with electronics, ...

The cosmic ingredient, known as meteoric iron ... The team suggests that locals might have witnessed a meteor shower and went hunting for small pieces of the rare space rock.

resulting in a shower of so-called “secondary particles” that can make it to the Earth’s surface. According to the University of Chicago, more than 90 percent of cosmic rays consist of ...

With the Akeno Giant Air Shower Array (AGASA), 581 cosmic rays above 10^19eV, 47 above 4 x 10^19eV, and 7 above 10^20eV are observed until August 1998. Arrival direction distribution of these ...