While the study of death records across 500 occupations is US based, experts say the finding could be similar in Australia ...

An instrument built to study cosmic rays has turned out to be a powerful tool for investigating thunderstorms. Earlier ...

Proton-oxygen collisions at the LHC reveal how extreme cosmic rays trigger particle showers when they slam into Earth’s atmosphere.

Scientists have recreated how high-energy cosmic rays enter the Earth’s atmosphere and collide with our planet’s gases.

Using a particle accelerator, an NYU professor partnered with an international team of researchers in Switzerland to recreate ...

What if the amount of radiation you encounter on a flight depends not just on how high you fly, but on what the Sun is doing? A new study using high-altitude ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Illustration of the formation of the GCR cavity in the ecliptic plane. The white lines from the Sun show the typical pattern of ...

Deep space is not a benign environment for living tissue. Beyond the protective shield of Earth’s magnetic field, astronauts ...

Cosmic rays traveling through space may provide enough energy to sustain life even in incredibly cold and dark environments, a new study suggests. The staggeringly energetic neutrino likely came from ...

This discovery suggests that there are many binary systems producing energetic ultraviolet radiation that have remained ...

An instrument built half a world away from any meteorological laboratory, designed to catch particles arriving from deep space, has become one of the most powerful tools available for probing the ...