After an airplane bound for New Jersey fell thousands of feet without warning — sending 15 people to the hospital — a university professor has given an unexpected possible explanation for the aircraft's mishap: cosmic rays.
The JetBlue Airbus A320 may have been hit by a stream of high-energy particles emanating from a supernova explosion elsewhere in the galaxy, according to Clive Dyer, a University of Surrey space and radiation expert who spoke to Space.com.
