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

So, what could have happened to massless Hawking relics? These particles most likely went into cosmic radiation. It may even be possible to someday detect them in the cosmic microwave background ...

Japanese researchers developed a system based on subatomic particles derived from high-energy cosmic rays to locate a ... particles in space strike the atmosphere above Earth, muons have been ...

Magnetic fields, radiation, particles and matter, which have been ejected from the Sun, can interact with the Earth’s upper atmosphere and ... hours to witness the cosmic event.

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