Watch an animation of a black hole shooting jets of particles through a "collapsing star at nearly the speed of light" and emit "x-rays and gamma rays (magenta)," according to NASA's Goddard Space ...

A dead star accelerates protons to extreme speeds, shedding light on the origin of the most energetic cosmic rays.

High-energy cosmic rays, 10 million times more powerful than particles accelerated in Earth's strongest atom smasher, may ...

A decades-old cosmic mystery has finally been cracked: the strange X-rays coming from the bright star gamma-Cas are caused by ...

For decades, scientists have been trying to solve a mystery: Where do high-energy cosmic rays come from? These charged ...

Using various telescopes, an international team of astronomers has performed multi-wavelength observations of a recently ...

You've worn 3D glasses in cinemas, witnessing stunning depth as each eye sees a different image. You've put on polarized sunglasses in summer ...

Armed with a slew of new instruments, physicists are closing in on one of nature’s oldest mysteries — and finding that storm ...

Cosmic rays (CRs) are energetic particles traveling through space at speeds close to that of light. They consist of atomic nuclei, electrons, positrons, high-energy gamma rays, and neutrinos, and are ...

China’s Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO) has detected ultra-high-energy gamma rays above 100 TeV from the ...

BEIJING, May 9 (Xinhua) -- For decades, scientists have been trying to solve a mystery: Where do high-energy cosmic rays come from? These charged particles travel from outer space to Earth, but their ...

Extreme process conditions are part of everyday life in many industries. High temperatures, aggressive media, high pressures or heavy buildup regularly pose major challenges for conventional measuring ...