Scientists close in on source of cosmic rays
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An international team of astronomers believe they have solved a mystery that has been perplexing scientists for 100 years -- the origin of cosmic rays.
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PPARC -- A mystery lurking at the centre of our own Milky Way galaxy - an object radiating high-energy gamma rays - has been detected by a team of UK astronomers working with international partners.     Their research, published today (September 22nd) in the Journal Astronomy and Astrophysics, was carried out using the High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.), an array of four telescopes, in Namibia, South-West Africa...
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Scientists discuss their prefered targets for the next "flagship" mission to another world.
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Scientists are hopeful they can retrieve particles of solar wind from a capsule that crashed in the desert last week. By Peter N. Spotts | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor.
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Scientists in California on Friday began examining for the first time samples of solar wind particles collected by the spacecraft Genesis, which crashed earlier this month in the Utah desert when its parachutes failed to open on landing.
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Scientists give details of a Japanese mission to investigate colossal explosions on the surface of the Sun.
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A team of astronomers from the US and the UK obtain some of the clearest pictures of space ever taken.
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The world's biggest collider hopes to create a smorgasbord of exotic particles, from the so-called God particle to dark matter and maybe even miniature black holes. John Borland goes to the edge of theory.
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neutron_p writes &quot;An international team of astronomers has produced the first ever image of an astronomical object using high energy gamma rays, helping to solve a 100 year old mystery - an origin of cosmic rays.
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The massive cosmic assault of a black hole blasting an immense jet of energy and radiation into a nearby galaxy has been observed by astronomers for the first time, NASA announced Monday.
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Scientists discuss their preferred targets for the next "flagship" mission to another world.
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Results from experiments at CERN and the Jyvaskyla Accelerator Laboratory in Finland, reported in Nature today, cast new light on the primary reaction that creates carbon in stars.
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Over the past week, several independent efforts were made to search for pre-discovery observations of 2004 MN4. These efforts proved successful today when Jeff Larsen and Anne Descour of the Spacewatch Observatory
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Scientists have now officially witnessed the perfect cosmic storm. Thanks to the European Space Agency&#39;s XMM-Newton observatory, they watched a nearby head-on collision between two galaxy clusters.
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Scientists in California on Friday began examining for the first time samples of solar wind particles collected by the spacecraft Genesis, which crashed earlier this month in the Utah desert when its parachutes failed to open on
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Teams of international scientists have  used observations from NASA's Swift satellite and other  telescopes to witness the evolution of a cosmic blast into a  stellar explosion or supernova.
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An international team of astronomers has produced the first ever image of an astronomical object using high energy gamma rays, helping to solve a 100 year old mystery - an origin of cosmic rays.