The terrifying plunge of a JetBlue flight bound for New Jersey has revived a question that sounds like science fiction but is ...

Radiation from space that led to more than 6,000 Airbus aircraft needing emergency computer updates could become a growing ...

The first step on the moon was one of humanity's most exciting accomplishments. Now scientists are planning return trips—and ...

A cosmic ray from a faraway supernova explosion may have sent a packed passenger jet into free fall in late October, forcing ...

Life on Mars sounds like something from a "Doctor Who" episode. But a study published in the International Journal of Astrobiology challenges the science fiction notion of that idea. The research ...

Michigan State University astrophysicists are closing in on one of space science’s biggest mysteries: where the galaxy’s most energetic particles come from. Their studies uncovered a pulsar wind ...

Chinese researchers have identified black holes as the likely source of the high-energy component of the cosmic-ray “knee.” Milestone findings released on November 16 by the Large High Altitude Air Sh ...

"You know we haven't done enough research into the effects of cosmic rays!" Ben may have been right way back when Stan Lee and Jack Kirby created him and the rest of the Fantastic Four 64 years ago, ...

Astronomers link an X-ray nebula to a pulsar-powered PeVatron, offering major clues to the origins of galactic cosmic rays.

High-energy particles zipping through the cosmos are harmful to life on Earth, but scientists think it could be food for potential alien life elsewhere. Saturn's moon Enceladus (shown here in a 2006 ...