An illustration showing a cosmic ray hitting the Telescope Array experiment's detectors. Over the years, scientists have managed to unveil the existence of quite a few intriguing particles, pushing ...

A mysterious outer space particle fell to Earth, and it’s the most energetic cosmic ray detected since 1991. That was when the most energetic cosmic ray ever seen which is the “Oh-My-God” particle.

Scientists in Utah have identified a rare cosmic ray that could've come from beyond the Milky Way. It has been named the "Amaterasu particle" after the Japanese sun goddess. A Telescope Array ...

UTAH (CNN/CNN Newsource/WKRC) - Scientists have detected the second most-powerful cosmic ray from beyond the Milky Way. Named the "Amaterasu Particle" after the sun goddess in Japanese mythology, the ...

Astronomers have seen unique, incredibly high-energy particles descend to earth, which are cosmic rays bearing the name of the Japanese sun goddess Amaterasu and are among the highest-energy ones ever ...

Space scientists have been left baffled and shocked after astronomers revealed that extremely powerful cosmic rays have hit the Earth as they traveled from beyond the Milky Way galaxy. The researchers ...

Osaka, Japan – A high-energy particle falls from space to the Earth’s surface—it is not clear where it came from or even what it is, exactly. This may sound like something out of science fiction, but ...

An incredibly fast-moving particle from space recently arrived on Earth, and physicists are rushing to figure out what it is and where it came from. Called the Amaterasu particle, after the Shinto ...

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