In the mid-1960s, the Nobel Prize–winning physicist Luis Alvarez had a wild idea. He proposed using muons, highly penetrating subatomic particles created when cosmic rays strike Earth’s ...

Three targets identified at Boundary Zone with anomalous modeled density. Co-incident gravity anomalies strengthen the target ...

Muon tomography, or muography, is the practice of using muons generated by cosmic rays interacting with Earth’s atmosphere to image structures on Earth’s surface, akin to producing an X-ray.

With a new measurement imminent, the Courier explores the experimental results and theoretical calculations used to predict ...

Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb discusses how scientists trace the cosmic journey of high-energy neutrinos from the Big Bang to ...

This 3-D image shows a cosmic-ray muon producing a large shower of energy as it passes through the NOvA far detector in Minnesota. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the ...

Cosmic neutrinos travel vast cosmic distances without being ... The event that KM3NeT observed in 2023 is thought to be a ...

Muon tomography functions by detecting the number and arrival direction of sub-atomic particles called ‘muons’ that are generated at a constant rate by the interaction of cosmic rays and the ...