Could the Sun’s Orbit Shape Evolution?

The sun is located about 26,000 light-years from the center of our galaxy, aka the Milky Way, and its orbit is close to ...
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The 'sound of the Big Bang' hints that Earth may sit in a cosmic void 2 billion light-years wide

Earth, its cosmic home the Milky Way, and even the very local region of universe around us could be situated within a void of low density compared to the rest of the universe. If so, that would solve ...
Space.com

Gamma-ray bursts reveal largest structure in the universe is bigger and closer to Earth than we knew: 'The jury is still out on what it all means.'

"It is larger than the size of most anything to which it might be compared." The universe's largest structure, the Hercules-Corona Borealis Great Wall, was already a challenge to explain with models ...
Scientific American

The Second Most Powerful Cosmic Ray in History Came from—Nowhere?

Stellar flares and supernovae, gamma-ray bursts and giant impacts—the universe has no shortage of ways to wallop our planet. Among the strangest and most mysterious are ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays ...
The Conversation

A clock in the rocks: what cosmic rays tell us about Earth’s changing surface and climate

Senior Lecturer in Physical Geography, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington Shaun Eaves receives funding from the New Zealand Antarctic Science Platform. Jamey Stutz receives funding ...