You can't see, feel, hear, taste or smell them, but tiny particles from space are constantly raining down on us.

The CosmicWatch device costs only $100 to make, making it accessible for both high school students and spacecraft operators.

A burst of high-energy radiation has struck Spain’s newest military communications satellite, jolting a flagship program that ...

"It's astonishing to find such a strong radio signal at this distance." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A vast cloud of energetic ...

Solar physicists say they have found a key source of intense gamma rays unleashed when Earth’s nearest star produces its most ...

Demonstration of statistical analysis for 3D polarization results with the initial 23 μs of Flash 1 (19:52:38). (a) Orientation distribution in AZ (−180°–180°) and ZE (0°–90°) for random pairs of 2D ...

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 ...

NEW ORLEANS — Astronomers using a NASA space telescope have discovered a region of the sky with a mysterious concentration of some of the universe's highest-energy radiation. The astronomers were ...

MELBOURNE, FLA.—Florida Institute of Technology researchers are trying to solve one of the great mysteries in nature: how thunderstorms make lightning. Because, in principle, lightning is a big spark ...

The source of potentially hazardous solar particles, released from the Sun at high speed during storms in its outer atmosphere, has been located for the first time by researchers at UCL and George ...

High-energy cosmic rays errors possibly created a soft error, known as a "bit flip," in the onboard avionics of the Airbus ...

A new theory suggests fusion reactors could help scientists search for axions, mysterious particles that may explain dark ...