Closest look yet at mysterious ‘UFO comet’ astronomers thought might hit Earth

A European spacecraft heading to Jupiter has caught the most detailed image of the comet that had astronomers perplexed and worried it might hit the Earth. The interstellar comet ...
Electronic Design

Digi Acquires Particle for Continued Long-Term IoT Support

Particle has been a major player in the IoT space since 2013, enabling companies to build and deploy connected products. Over 250,000 developers have used the company’s developer tools, development ...
Live Science

Impossibly powerful 'ghost particle' that slammed into Earth may have come from an exploding black hole — and it could upend both particle physics and cosmology

A supercharged neutrino that smashed into our planet in 2023 may have been spit out by an exploding primordial black hole with a "dark charge." If true, this theory could lead to a definitive catalog ...
Science News

The only U.S. particle collider shuts down – so a new one may rise

I peeked in on the house-sized particle detector known as STAR just after it took its last-ever snapshot of one of the most extreme types of fireball ever created. Inside, the conditions just after ...
Detroit Free Press

China’s Top 3 Handheld Particle Counter manufactures Ranked: Defining Future Air Quality Monitoring Standards

CALIFORNIA, CA, UNITED STATES, January 19, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ — The global demand for precise air quality and contamination monitoring is surging, driven by ...
Quanta Magazine

Is Particle Physics Dead, Dying, or Just Hard?

In July 2012, physicists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Europe triumphantly announced the discovery of the Higgs boson, the long-sought linchpin of the subatomic world. Interacting with Higgs ...
National Geographic news

Inside NASA’s plan to defeat moon dust. (And why it matters more than you think.)

Moon dust is sharp, corrosive, and potentially fatal. NASA’s new electric force field shield is designed to blast it away. Amy Fritz, a dust-mitigation researcher at Johnson Space Center, pours ...
Popular Mechanics

Scientists Have Been Hunting This Elusive Particle for a Decade. It Doesn’t Exist.

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: It used to be thought that bizarre interactions between subatomic particles known as neutrinos could be explained by another type of neutrino. The ...
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Indian space instrument hit by dust from alien objects every 1,000 seconds

India's first homegrown cosmic dust detector, the Dust EXperiment (DEX), has uncovered a relentless bombardment of microscopic interplanetary dust particles (IDPs) slamming into orbital instruments ...
Science Daily

Mars dust storms are crackling with electricity

Mars isn’t just dusty—it crackles with electricity. Scientists discovered that dust devils can generate tiny electric sparks, captured for the first time by Perseverance’s microphone. These static ...
Quanta Magazine

Particle Physicists Detect ‘Magic’ at the Large Hadron Collider

Ninety million times a year, when protons crash together at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), they produce, in their wreckage, a top quark and an anti-top quark, the heaviest known elementary particles ...