Neutrinos are ghostly subatomic particles that can travel in a straight line for billions of light-years, passing unhindered ...

Two bands of radiation called the Van Allen belts encircle Earth. After a May 2024 solar superstorm, two more showed up between those belts.

Scientists have used quantum computers to simulate how particles can appear in an expanding universe. This study, published ...

But its effects were way more far-reaching, as scientists now reveal. In the months following the storm, Earth was girded by two new, temporary radiation belts of high-energy particles, trapped by the ...