This video explores how cosmic rays interact with aircraft electronics and what engineers do to protect flight systems from rare, high-energy particle events. Fox Business announces replacement for ...

Cosmic rays from outside the solar system, which can harm astronauts, spacecraft computers and electronic systems, are increasing and are now at a "space age" high, according to NASA researchers.

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

An instrument built half a world away from any meteorological laboratory, designed to catch particles arriving from deep space, has become one of the most powerful tools available for probing the ...

Where starlight doesn't reach, new things are born: For the first time, an international research team has directly measured the effect of cosmic radiation in a cold molecular cloud. The observation ...

The mysterious Amaterasu particle may not be a proton at all. New research suggests that some of the most extreme cosmic rays could be ultraheavy atomic nuclei, heavier than iron, which are better ...

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 ...