The traditional astrophysical recipe for life as we know it is quite simple: Get a rocky, gas-shrouded world in a “habitable zone” orbit around a star so that it’s not too hot or too cold. Then just ...

Across the observable universe, galaxies advertise themselves in radio waves for familiar reasons-magnetic fields, cosmic ...

Cosmic rays traveling through space may provide enough energy to sustain life even in incredibly cold and dark environments, a new study suggests. Reading time 2 minutes The search for alien life is ...

In late November 2025, astronomers captured an unprecedented cosmic signature: the first X-ray emissions ever detected from ...

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 ...

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An illustration of a young solar system immersed in high-energy cosmic rays from a nearby supernova. Unlike considering only direct injection of supernova ejecta, this process naturally explains key ...

Cosmic rays, consisting predominantly of high-energy protons and nuclei originating from distant astrophysical sources, interact continuously with the solar wind and the heliospheric magnetic fields.