The space agency's new simulator will study the effects of space radiation on the body -- overcoming the challenges of long-duration spaceflight. Jackson Ryan was CNET's science editor, and a multiple ...

"You know we haven't done enough research into the effects of cosmic rays!" Ben Grimm, Fantastic Four #1, 1961 Ben may have been right way back when Stan Lee and Jack Kirby created him and the rest of ...

May 19 (UPI) --Galactic cosmic rays are everywhere, but they're also elusive. They're hard to block and come in a variety of forms, making them quite difficult to study. To keep astronauts and ...

(Boston) -- Boston University Professor Harlan Spence recently learned that his proposal for CRaTER, an instrument that will measure and characterize the potential biological effects of cosmic ...

WASHINGTON - Researchers studying global warming have often been confounded by the differences between observed increases in surface-level temperatures and unchanging low-atmosphere temperatures.

Hitachi has announced that its Production Engineering Research Laboratory has developed a cosmic ray neutron evaluation system, which can uniformly evaluate the results of experiments and simulations ...

Recent airborne science flights to Greenland are improving NASA’s understanding of space weather by measuring radiation exposure to air travelers and validating global radiation maps used in flight ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cosmic radiation could be a boon for subsurface life on worlds such as Europa (left), Mars (center) and Enceladus (right), ...

According to a radiation weather expert, a stream of high-energy particles from a supernova explosion may have triggered a sudden loss of altitude on a passenger plane. In late October, a JetBlue ...

other space scientists at Goddard Space Center in Greenbelt, Maryland to discuss their participation in NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) proven analog and digital electronics, CRaTER will ...