High-energy particles rain down on Earth constantly, but scientists have now detected a doozy: a neutrino blasting in from ...
A bouquet of thousands of stars in bloom has arrived. This composite image contains the deepest X-ray image ever made of the ...
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Astronomers using a giant network of sensors, still under construction at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea, have found the highest-energy cosmic “ghost particle” ever detected. The neutrino, as the ...
Using an observatory under construction deep beneath the Mediterranean Sea near Sicily, scientists have detected a ghostly ...
A huge detector in the Mediterranean Sea spotted the most energetic neutrino from space to date. The particle could shed light on the universe’s most extreme phenomena.
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Astronomers are trying to understand a mysterious cosmic explosion that the Einstein Probe spacecraft spotted in April last year.
For the first time, researchers have found evidence that even microquasars with low-mass stars can efficiently accelerate ...
In the heart of our Milky Way galaxy, two gigantic "bubbles" extend roughly 50,000 light-years above and below the galactic ...
Scientists discover low-mass microquasars can accelerate cosmic rays, reshaping theories on high-energy particle origins.