Five tiny pocket mice traveled around the Moon aboard Apollo 17 in 1972, carrying radiation detectors that were implanted beneath their scalps. The experiment was designed to track high-energy ...

An instrument built to study cosmic rays has turned out to be a powerful tool for investigating thunderstorms. Earlier ...

Cosmic ray and astroparticle detectors comprise experimental techniques and instrumentation designed to measure high-energy particles and radiation originating from space, including charged cosmic ...

On Sept. 18, a gamma-ray detector aboard NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory began picking up flashes of the highest-energy ...

Recently, there has been several breakthroughs in the study of atmospheric electricity using ground based cosmic ray detectors. The observations reported from these cosmic ray detectors, can lead to a ...

An instrument built half a world away from any meteorological laboratory, designed to catch particles arriving from deep space, has become one of the most powerful tools available for probing the ...

IceCube’s Antarctic detector helped trace high-energy neutrinos to violent cosmic sources, opening a new window into the ...

Milestone results released by the Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO) on November 16 have solved a decades-old mystery about the cosmic ray energy spectrum—which shows a sharp decrease ...

This picture taken on May 1, 2024 shows Tokyo University PhD student Kei Misumi in a air shower room before entering a clean room at Tokyo University in Tokyo. Clean rooms, a vital part of ...