MALARGÜE, Argentina -- Scientists of the Pierre Auger Observatory, a project to discover the origins of rare and mysterious ultra-high energy cosmic rays, began a celebration today (November 10) in ...

The observatory has made detailed information about an initial selection of its recorded cosmic-ray events available for outside scientists to use. In Argentina, far to the west of Buenos Aires, sits ...

The sprawling Auger Cosmic Ray Observatory in South America has produced its first major discovery while still under construction. The international Auger collaboration has traced the rain of ...

MALARGÜE, Argentina—Scientists of the Pierre Auger Collaboration announced today (Nov. 8) that active galactic nuclei are the most likely candidate for the source of the highest-energy cosmic rays ...

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Cosmic rays bombarded the University of Nebraska-Lincoln city campus Thursday afternoon. Sounds serious. No need to worry, though. It happens all the time. Cosmic rays are everywhere. They come from ...

Ever since French physicist Pierre Auger proposed in 1939 that cosmic rays must carry incredible amounts of energy, scientists have puzzled over what could be producing these powerful clusters of ...