Proton-oxygen collisions at the LHC reveal how extreme cosmic rays trigger particle showers when they slam into Earth’s atmosphere.

Tens of kilometers above Earth's surface, high-energy particles from outer space constantly strike the atmosphere, creating showers of energetic secondary particles that rain down from the sky.

Every second, particles zip through your body at nearly the speed of light. They rain down from a storm high in the sky, where cosmic rays, a powerful type of interstellar matter, are constantly ...

For the first time, physicists have recreated a key collision behind cosmic-ray showers using oxygen and protons inside CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, giving researchers an unusually precise view of ...

Using a particle accelerator, an NYU professor partnered with an international team of researchers in Switzerland to recreate ...

An instrument built to study cosmic rays has turned out to be a powerful tool for investigating thunderstorms. Earlier ...

Oxygen collider Physicists working at CERN’s ATLAS experiment have gained insights into how cosmic rays interact with the atmosphere. (Courtesy: CERN/CC-BY-4.0) Physicists at CERN have recreated the ...

Milestone results released by the Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO) on November 16 have solved a decades-old mystery about the cosmic ray energy spectrum—which shows a sharp decrease ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A stream of high-energy particles from a distant supernova explosion may have caused a packed passenger jet to suddenly lose ...

Milestone results released by the Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO) on November 16 have solved a decades-old mystery about the cosmic ray energy spectrum—which shows a sharp decrease ...

A South Pole neutrino experiment has measured radio waves induced by cosmic rays—thus demonstrating that its detection method works. Lookout below. A radio antenna being lowered into a borehole near ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Jesse Liu, New York University (THE CONVERSATION) Every second, particles zip through ...