Researchers saw an unusual pattern when they looked at a "skymap" of the relative intensity of cosmic rays directed toward the Earth's Southern Hemisphere, with an excess of cosmic rays detected in ...

A century after the discovery of cosmic rays, scientists may have identified a hidden principle governing how these particles behave across the universe. Using data from the DAMPE space telescope, ...

Kysa Johnson, “blow up 322 – the long goodbye (history of gold) – subatomic decay patterns and rapidly spinning neutron star PSR – B1509 – 58” (2017), ink on high gloss on board, 48 x 96 inches (all ...

Though still under construction, the IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole is already delivering scientific results — including an early finding about a phenomenon the telescope was not even ...

The discovery of a pattern of X-ray "stripes" in the remains of an exploded star may provide the first direct evidence that a cosmic event can accelerate particles to energies a hundred times higher ...

A research team led by Professor Woong-bae Zee at Sejong University has uncovered compelling evidence that the distinctive warped shapes of many disk galaxies are closely tied to both their ...

Click here to submit a picture for publication in these online galleries and/or on the Guardian letters page ‘I am fascinated by the patterns created when water freezes, even in puddles by the side of ...