A NASA satellite that suddenly reappeared after going silent gets credit for the remarkable discovery—a pair of temporary ...

There are trillions of charged particles—protons and electrons, the basic building blocks of matter—whizzing around above ...

The largest solar storm in two decades hit Earth in May 2024. For several days, wave after wave of high-energy charged ...

A historic solar storm in May 2024 not only triggered spectacular auroras but also created two new temporary radiation belts ...

In recent years, there have been attempts to describe the inside of a proton using quantum information tools, with partial ...

Radiation belts are a normal part of the architecture of a planet with a global magnetic field. Stars are constantly leaking particles, borne by a stellar wind; these stream out and, where they ...

For the first time, researchers have found evidence that even microquasars with low-mass stars can efficiently accelerate ...

Once a year, the Large Hadron Collider smashes lead ions. But how do scientists get a heavy metal into a particle accelerator ...

For the first time, researchers have reported a 3D metal-organic framework (MOF) that can conduct both electrons and protons (J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2024, DOI: 10.1021/jacs.4c13792). Materials mixing ...

This occurred when the universe had expanded and cooled enough to allow electrons and protons to form the first neutral atoms of hydrogen. The disappearance of free electrons meant that photons, aka ...