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, but we know a heck of a lot more about cosmic rays today. Back then, Grimm, ...

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Casey Dreier, Chief of Space Policy at The Planetary Society, has weighed in on cosmic space rays posing a threat to air travel. Getty Images This redefined shooting star. It’s not just spacecraft ...

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

When I was four years old, my pregnant mother drove my sister and me out to Dugway Proving Grounds in Utah to visit my father, who worked on the original Fly’s Eye detector for the University of ...

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 ...

The colossal El Castillo, also known as the Temple of Kulkulcan, is located within the Chichen Itza complex and is celebrated as one of the New Seven Wonders of the World.

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The most energetic breed of particle ever observed might be more than meets the eye — or the particle detector. Physicists once thought that these rare particles, called ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays, ...