The longest gamma-ray burst ever observed has UNC Chapel Hill astronomers questioning the very nature of these cosmic ...

Chinese researchers have identified black holes as the likely source of the high-energy component of the cosmic-ray “knee.” Milestone findings released on November 16 by the Large High Altitude Air Sh ...

The terrifying plunge of a JetBlue flight bound for New Jersey has revived a question that sounds like science fiction but is ...

A cosmological simulation study by researchers from the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has systematically revealed, for the first time, how the interaction ...

In a glimpse of the early universe, astronomers have observed a galaxy as it appeared just 800 million years after the Big ...

Milestone results released by the Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO) on November 16 have solved a decades-old mystery about the cosmic ray energy spectrum—which shows a sharp decrease ...

Knotted structures once imagined by Lord Kelvin may actually have shaped the universe’s earliest moments, according to new ...

More than one million sources of energy are featured in the first X-ray images from the eROSITA space telescope. By Laura Baisas Published Feb 5, 2024 12:00 PM EST Get the Popular Science daily ...

Michigan State University astrophysicists are closing in on one of space science’s biggest mysteries: where the galaxy’s most energetic particles come from. Their studies uncovered a pulsar wind ...

Some of the most energetic cosmic rays in the galaxy may come from a surprisingly small source. If Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics researcher Laura Olivera-Nieto and her colleagues are right, ...