Summer skies have long been a poetical phenomenon in the minds of earthlings, with songs and stories frequently citing the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Stargazers are about to get a glimpse of the universe like never before when the new Vera C. Rubin Observatory unveils its first ...

SALT LAKE CITY, June 15, 2015 - Physicists plan a $6.4 million expansion of the $25 million Telescope Array observatory in Utah so they can zero in on a "hotspot" that seems to be a source of the most ...

Peter Rejcek, Antarctic Sun Editor: The U.S. Antarctic Program’s longest running experiment, which helps keeps an eye on the activity of the solar system’s hottest object, will soon be working in the ...

Cosmic rays seen at Earth show a wide range of particle energies, from 107 electron-volts (eV) to more than 1020 eV, the ...

It's true that you can call upon Mount Wilson Observatory for strictly astronomical reasons, such as gazing through one of the most powerful telescopes around in order to ponder incredibly distant ...

Particles smaller than an atom hurtle through the universe nearly at the speed of light, blasted into space from something, somewhere, in the cosmos. A scientific collaboration of the Pierre Auger ...

A two hour flight south and west from Buenos Aires puts you right in the midst of a land of scrub brush, salt lakes, dry riverbeds and some of the rockiest off roads I’ve ever experienced. It’s the ...

Eye on the sky: the Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory in Sichuan Province in southwest China will attempt to understand the origins of high-energy cosmic rays. (Courtesy: IHEP/LHAASO ...

Fifty years ago, scientists discovered that the Earth is occasionally hit by cosmic rays of enormous energies. Since then, they have argued about the source of those ultra-high-energy cosmic ...

[Daniel Whiteson and Michael Mulhearn], researchers at the University of California, have come up with a novel method of detecting ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECR) using smartphones. UHECR are ...

The Pierre Auger Cosmic Ray Observatory is dedicated to the study of the highest-energy cosmic rays. The facility is jointly constructed and operated by Michigan Technological University and some 100 ...