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In a groundbreaking discovery, researchers have provided the first compelling evidence that even microquasars with low-mass stars are capable of efficiently accelerating particles. This pivotal finding significantly alters our understanding of gamma-ray abundance throughout the universe, opening up exciting new avenues in astrophysics. The Cosmic Particle Landscape Our planet is under a constant bombardment of particles hailing from the vast reaches of outer space.

In a dramatic leap for astrophysics, Chinese researchers have recreated a key cosmic process in the lab: the acceleration of ions by powerful collisionless shocks. By using intense lasers to simulate...

In a new Nature Physics study, researchers accelerated electrons to more than twice the energy predicted by the traditional dephasing limit for laser-plasma accelerators operating over the same distance. This was made possible by a specially engineered laser pulse called a flying focus, which counteracts a longstanding limitation known as "dephasing."

TAU Systems technology uses ultra-fast lasers and AI to open accelerator beamtime to industry

NASA's Juno spacecraft caught Jupiter's magnetic shock wave accelerating particles to nearly the speed of light. The same machinery, scaled up, appears to seed the cosmic rays that race across the gal

This paper outlines the current understanding of solar flares, mainly focused on magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) processes responsible for producing a flare. Observations show that flares are one of the most explosive phenomena in the atmosphere of the Sun, releasing a huge amount of e

A whole library’s worth of papyri owned by Julius Caesar’s father-in-law were turned to charcoal by the eruption of Vesuvius. Nearly 2000 years later, we can at last read these lost treasures