The Met Office has launched radiation sensors strapped to a weather balloon to go more than 100,000ft (30,480m) above its ...

High-energy space radiation will threaten the Mars settlements that Elon Musk hopes to build with SpaceX, as well as NASA outposts for astronauts.

NASA measures radiation over Greenland to improve aviation safety and validate models that predict cosmic doses polar flight ...

A new research effort involving simulations of Milky-Way-like galaxies shows that the mysterious, unexplained extra gamma ...

Astronauts need sunglasses to protect their eyes from intense solar radiation in space. Space shades also help astronauts adapt to extreme light conditions and reduce glare. Astronaut sunglasses are ...

As humanity prepares for longer missions beyond Earth, scientists are uncovering unsettling truths about how space reshapes ...

This volume of the series Springer Briefs in Space Life Sciences explains the physics and biology of radiation in space, defines various forms of cosmic radiation and their dosimetry, and presents a ...

From the very first Cold War Geiger counters that were Sputnik and Explorer-1, to the autonomous robots of Mars, asteroid missions, telescopes, and the Voyager craft now outside our solar system, ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

Humans have forever been using all manner of techniques to better secure the food we need to sustain our lives. The practice of agriculture is intimately tied to the development of society, while ...

As a life-long consumer of newspapers, I have read many odd headlines. “Three Mice Make Radiation Ride in Model Man-in-Space ...