This year’s Nobel Prize in Physics went to Belgian physicist Francis Halzen, 82, who made major contributions to neutrino observation. The Nobel Commi ...

New Delhi, Sep 15 (PTI) Researchers have recreated in a lab for the first time how high-energy cosmic rays enter the Earth’s atmosphere and collide with its gases.The beautiful, scenic sky displays of ...

Science has given us remarkable insights into the universe, from quantum mechanics to the vast cosmic web connecting galaxies. Yet for every question answered, new mysteries emerge that challenge our ...

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 ...

Astroparticle physics explores the fundamental particles and forces at play in the Universe by studying cosmic messengers—chiefly cosmic rays, neutrinos and high-energy photons—that originate from ...

Dark matter remains one of the most intriguing components of the cosmos, making up about 27% of the universe's total mass-energy content. It cannot be seen directly, yet its presence is inferred ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. While many 'mysterious' natural phenomena have been unraveled by science, there remain a few that sit stubbornly outside our ...