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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Particles smaller than an atom hurtle through the universe nearly at the speed of light, blasted into space from something, somewhere, in the cosmos. A scientific collaboration of the Pierre Auger ...

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A two hour flight south and west from Buenos Aires puts you right in the midst of a land of scrub brush, salt lakes, dry riverbeds and some of the rockiest off roads I’ve ever experienced. It’s the ...

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 ...