When electronics meet cosmic rays, bad things can happen. Chip makers need to test what their products can withstand, and ...

A jetliner was nearly knocked out of the sky and sent plummeting to a deadly crash that would have killed all onboard by a bizarre attack from outer space – an explosive burst of cosmic rays sent ...

Cosmic rays are mainly high-energy protons produced by galactic events, such as shock waves from exploding stars (supernovae). Traveling at almost the speed of light, they collide with particles in ...

The outer edge of the solar system has never been an easy thing to name that hard to measure. This boundary became a physical location with instruments present at Voyager, as it crossed into ...

Space scientists have spotted a giant cosmic "brain." The latest images from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have revealed new details in a mysterious, little-studied nebula surrounding a dying star ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...