F or years, astronomers have searched for the origins of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays, the most powerful particles in the universe.These energetic travelers move at nearly the speed of light ...

Scientists have revealed a hidden trigger of lightning that could resolve a centuries-old weather mystery. Earth is struck by ...

What's the deadliest part of a supernova explosion? To estimate this we have to look at what the actual destructive ...

Now, researchers have discovered a strange energy source at the center of our galaxy that could be linked to a different type ...

A strange energy source at the center of the Milky Way may be a new type of dark matter. Scientists found that hydrogen gas ...

These particles are so ghostly that trillions of them pass through Earth each day without notice. So, how do we detect them?

Recent research proposes a new form of dark matter that may actually be lighter in mass than other dark matter candidates.

Scientists suspect lightweight dark matter might ionize hydrogen in the Milky Way’s core. This could also explain the 511-keV ...

When researchers at the Los Alamos National Laboratory visualized data from the first few nanoseconds of a lightning, they ...

The research team attributed this behavior to cosmic-ray showers, which are high-energy particles from space that enter the Earth's atmosphere. These cosmic rays produce secondary, high-energy ...