Two astronauts aboard the ISS conducted their fourth and final spacewalk to finish a series of repairs aimed at extending the functioning of a cosmic ray detector attached to the spacecraft.
Decades ago, Armenian scientists built a high-elevation trap to catch and study cosmic rays. Physics has mostly moved on, but the station persists—a ghost observatory with a skeleton crew.
Scientists from Cornell University and Brookhaven National Laboratory have successfully demonstrated the world’s first capture and reuse of energy in a multi-turn particle accelerator.
The Fundamental Physics Prize Foundation will honor leaders at the Large Hadron Collider and its CMS and ATLAS experiments with a special $3 million prize.
The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, the world’s largest sky survey, will rain a monsoon of data onto the astrophysics community. Simulations prepare scientists for the approaching storm.