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Tau neutrinos are notoriously difficult to spot in detectors like IceCube. But researchers have managed to isolate 7 candidates.

A strong X-class solar flare was spotted streaming from the Sun on Friday, causing a solar radiation storm on Earth, according to space weather officials with NASA and NOAA.

Flare Up The Sun is entering the most active part of its 11-year cycle, unleashing powerful solar flares, coronal mass ejections, and streams of energetic particles toward the Earth. Just earlier this month, a massive hole opened up in the Sun's atmosphere, allowing copious amounts of solar wind to escape. On Thursday, NASA's Solar Dynamics […]

Scientists have discovered a mysterious, highly energetic "sun goddess" particle that could act as a messenger for some of the universe’s most powerful events.

Researchers recently detected an "ultra-high-energy" cosmic ray, which is the most powerful since the famous "Oh My God" particle was detected in 1991. They have no idea where it came from.

Ghost in the Hand Astronomers have spotted a ghostly skeleton hand floating in outer space some 16,000 light-years from Earth. A spooky image taken by NASA's newest X-ray telescope, the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE), shows a pulsar wind nebula dubbed MSH 15-52 casting shadowy finger-like protrusions in the form of energetic particles, forming a […]

Scientists have discovered the most powerful solar storm ever recorded using ancient tree rings from the French Alps.

Annual growth rings inside the ancient remains of Scots pine trees in the Southern French Alps have revealed evidence of the largest-known solar storm, one that might have fried satellites and knocked out electricity grids had it occurred today. Researchers said on Monday the solar storm - the sun sending a large burst of energetic particles into space - occurred 14,300 years ago. Evidence for it manifested as a huge spike in radiocarbon - an isotope, or form, of the element carbon - detected in

Just months after a successful launch from French Guiana, the two particle-detecting instruments APL built on behalf of NASA for Europe’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer mission have already displayed their sophisticated capabilities.

Scientists have observed an aurora glimmering in infrared light, created by the interaction of energetic cosmic particles and carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere.