We still don't fully understand what triggers lightning. A new study suggests that showers of cosmic rays may be the missing ...

The cosmic pinwheel that astronomers feared could one day shower Earth with lethal gamma rays may not be as dangerous as once ...

Astrophysicists understand the origins of most cosmic rays. Any time there is an energetic event in the universe, it's likely ...

"We analyzed these observations with a cosmic ray shower (CRS) and found that these seemingly strange features can be consistently explained," they added. "A CRS provides an ionized path in the ...

Trillions upon trillions of cosmic rays hit the Earth every day. The vast majority of them are blocked by Earth’s atmosphere and magnetic field, but sometimes they will strike particles in the ...

The Čerenkov detectors pick up particles reaching the ground from a cosmic-ray shower, revealing their energy and trajectory; the telescopes expose the development of a shower by detecting the ...

Primary cosmic rays hitting the atoms in our atmosphere produce a shower of secondary particles with much lower energies so that most of them will not reach the ground. The average radiation ...

The use of artificial intelligence (AI) scares many people as neural networks, modeled after the human brain, are so complex ...

The purpose of the project is to provide a visualization of the characteristics of cosmic ray and gamma ray induced air showers ... displays the tracks of the charged particle sin the air shower.

This 3-D image shows a cosmic-ray muon producing a large shower of energy as it passes through the NOvA far detector in Minnesota. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the ...