"Understanding these cosmic rays allows us to unveil big particle accelerators in the universe that are often associated with ...

Using a decade’s worth of data from the H.E.S.S. telescopes in Namibia, they’ve observed a sharp kink in the energy spectrum ...

The High Energy Stereoscopic System is a ground-based gamma-ray telescope in the highlands of Namibia and sensitive in the ...

Scientists at the HESS observatory in Namibia have found the most energetic cosmic rays ever detected, reaching up to 40 ...

The DESI collaboration's latest research supports the standard model of gravity and hints at evolving dark energy, based on a ...

Five telescopes of the H.E.S.S.-collaboration in Namibia are used to study cosmic radiation, especially gamma radiation. With ...

Scientists have a problem with cosmic rays—they produce too many muons at the Earth's surface. Cascades of muons are ...

However, after reaching an altitude of 5,300 meters, Hess unveiled a natural source of high-energy particles from space. Today, we call those particles cosmic rays. Detecting these high energy ...

Astrophysicists have detected the most energetic electrons ever recorded raining down on Earth. With trillions of times the ...

New research reports the most powerful cosmic rays ever detected. Because the rays lose energy as they travel through space, ...

After over a decade of meticulous data collection, scientists at the H.E.S.S. observatory — which stands for "High Energy Stereoscopic System" and is located in Namibia — have made a groundbreaking ...