Although scientists have known about Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECRs ... One solution would be a very big detector. Physicists [Daniel] and [Michael] discovered an alternative to pricey ...

Scientists believe cosmic rays get spit out by faraway stars exploding (called supernovas). Others could be produced when matter ... (One particular cosmic ray, detected in 1991 and nicknamed the ...

Want to see cosmic rays? You might need a lot of expensive ... To test the idea that this is from some external source, he takes a smoke detector with a radioactive sensor and places it near ...

noted that cosmic-ray muons readily pass through solid rock ... In an experiment, the team set up a detector mounted on a moveable cart in the first basement of a building within the University ...

First, he marveled at what he could see. Galileo’s telescope revealed ... It may have been a cosmic ray hitting the light-detection chip, a high-velocity asteroid hurtling through the field ...

Whenever the next burst comes along, DUNE’s detector — many times larger than those first-generation models — could catch hundreds or thousands. “I’m just hoping they hold off,” Wilson says, laughing.

To stay alive in deep space, Voyager 1 shut down a key cosmic ray detector on Feb. 25, and Voyager 2 will turn off its particle instrument by March 24 to save precious power. Losing 4 watts every ...