Read article 'PAMELA pins down cosmic antiproton flux'
The satellite experiment Payload for Antimatter Matter Exploration and Light-nuclei Astrophysics (PAMELA) has made a new measurement of the antiproton-to-proton flux ratio in cosmic rays with energi...
Read article 'Fermi sees most powerful gamma-ray burst'
The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has observed the evolution of a gamma-ray burst over six orders of magnitude in photon energy.
Read article 'Planck satellite takes off to chart the universe'
ESA's satellite mission to map the cosmic microwave background.
Read article 'MINOS maps the deepest secrets of the upper atmosphere'
A collaborative study by particle physicists and atmospheric researchers has found the first correlations between daily variations in cosmic-ray muons detected deep below ground and large-scale phenom...
Read article 'The primary mechanism of blue stragglers is stellar cannibalism'
The long-standing mystery of the origin of blue stragglers in globular clusters has been solved. Researchers have found that these overweight stars do not result primarily from collisions between star...
Read article 'CMS does a full cosmic-data run'
On 11 November 2008 the conclusion of a month-long, major data-taking run by the CMS collaboration brought a two-year commissioning phase to a successful close.
Read article 'Pierre Auger Collaboration inaugurates observatory'
More than 200 guests and 100 collaboration members celebrated the inauguration of the Pierre Auger Observatory at its southern site in Malargüe, Argentina, on 14 November.
Read article 'Proton-rich nuclei shed light on heavy-element synthesis in cosmos'
Measurements of the half lives of two heavy elements by the NSCL.
Read article 'Chandra improves dark-energy constraints'
Evidence that the nature of dark energy is a cosmological constant is gathering strength. By adding independent constraints on dark energy from X-ray observations of clusters of galaxies by the Chandr...
Read article 'Protons and neutrons cosy up in nuclei and neutron stars'
Isolating the signal of short-range correlated nucleons may lead to a deeper understanding of cold, dense nuclear systems
