All Articles Tagged As: cosmic rays

Rare cosmic rays are from far away (3/28/2008)

Study confirms 1966 prediction: The most energetic particles in the universe are not from the neighborhood ...> Full Article

Ultrahigh-energy Cosmic Rays Are From Extremely Far Away (3/26/2008)

Final results from the University of Utah's High-Resolution Fly's Eye cosmic ray observatory show that the most energetic particles in the universe rarely reach Earth at full strength because they come from great distances, so most of them collide with radiation left over from the birth of the universe. ...> Full Article

Could The Universe Be Tied Up With Cosmic String? (1/22/2008)

A team of physicists and astronomers from the University of Sussex and Imperial College London have uncovered hints that there may be cosmic strings - lines of pure mass-energy - stretching across the entire Universe. ...> Full Article

Radiation Flashes May Help Crack Cosmic Mystery (12/9/2007)

Faint, fleeting blue flashes of radiation emitted by particles that travel faster than the speed of light through the atmosphere may help scientists solve one of the oldest mysteries in astrophysics. ...> Full Article

Violent black holes linked to high-energy cosmic rays (11/9/2007)

Scientists have made an important discovery about the highest-energy cosmic rays that hit the Earth - and the discovery leads back to supermassive black holes. ...> Full Article

Origin Of Cosmic Rays Illuminated (10/11/2007)

Recent observations from NASA and Japanese X-ray observatories have helped clarify one of the long-standing mysteries in astronomy -- the origin of cosmic rays. ...> Full Article