In the early '90s, scientists encountered a particle so unusual, it seemed impossible. It is now called the OMG particle, and ...

Our planet has recently been struck by an extraordinary burst of cosmic rays, demonstrating an intensity level that is unparalleled in recorded history. As we delve into the specifics of this event, ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, astronomers have detected a unique, repeating cosmic radio signal originating from an unknown object in space. The mysterious signal, detected every 44 minutes, is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. On Earth, the Large Hadron ...

Astronomers have spotted the brightest fast radio burst yet coming from a nearby galaxy. Observations of this phenomenon, a powerful flash of radio waves that lasts only about a millisecond, could ...

When a star dies, it generates an explosion of elemental nuclei and hurls them into space. Those elements, called cosmic rays, travel at nearly the speed of light, and eventually some of them ...

A century after their discovery, cosmic rays—particles of extreme energy originating from the far reaches of the universe—remain a mystery to scientists. The DAMPE (Dark Matter Particle Explorer) ...

Astroparticle physics explores the fundamental particles and forces at play in the Universe by studying cosmic messengers—chiefly cosmic rays, neutrinos and high-energy photons—that originate from ...

The mysterious Amaterasu particle may not be a proton at all. New research suggests that some of the most extreme cosmic rays could be ultraheavy atomic nuclei, heavier than iron, which are better ...

Researchers at UBC have found a way to mimic the elusive Schwinger effect using superfluid helium, where vortex pairs appear out of thin films instead of electron-positron pairs in a vacuum. Their ...

Conformal gravity theories rest on the principle of local Weyl invariance, extending general relativity by requiring invariance under pointwise rescaling of the metric. By augmenting the ...