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

Cosmic photon timing measurements help constrain possible departures from relativity, with no violation detected in the ...

The usual way to study cosmic rainstorms is by placing hundreds of specialized cameras across several miles of land. Together, these cameras act as one telescope. One of the biggest is the Telescope ...

Scientists have recreated how high-energy cosmic rays enter the Earth’s atmosphere and collide with our planet’s gases.

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

Learn how Nobel winner Francis Halzen's IceCube work revealed high-energy cosmic neutrinos and opened a new era in astronomy.

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 ...

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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Astronomers used different telescopes to zoom in on the "Shadow Blaster" galaxy. - International ...

Francis Halzen wins the prize alone for IceCube, a cubic kilometre of Antarctic ice fitted with 5,160 light sensors that ...

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences today decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics 2026 to Francis Halzen for his ...