Health Threat From Cosmic Rays

NASA and its international partners are making progress on Gateway – the lunar space station that will orbit the Moon as a centerpiece of the agency's Moon to Mars architecture.

Built by Boeing, the X37B space plane has performed a first-of-its kind aerobraking maneuver in the upper atmosphere.

A SpaceX capsule carrying four private citizens splashed down off Florida at 3:36 a.m. ET Sunday, ending a historic mission that included the world's first...

A SpaceX capsule carrying four private citizens splashed down off Florida at 3:36 a.m. ET Sunday, ending a historic mission that included the world's first all-civilian spacewalk.

A SpaceX capsule carrying four private citizens will have to wait to launch into space after a helium leak forced a launch delay until later this week at the earliest.

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Landing on Mars and establishing a colony on the Red Planet may expose humans to an array of space radiation that is little understood.

In 2021, a solar storm was recorded by multiple different spacecraft around our solar system. Their combined readings tell a curious story.

Rare but explosive solar eruptions may cause train signals to switch the wrong way, affecting train safety, a new study finds.

Most NASA missions feature one spacecraft or, occasionally, a few. The agency's Sun Radio Interferometer Space Experiment (SunRISE) is using half a dozen.

"With manned missions to outer space planned for the coming years, this work indicates that sexual health should be closely monitored in astronauts upon their return to Earth."

Galactic cosmic rays can impair function of erectile tissues, research in rats shows

To explore the mysterious ice-encrusted moon Europa, the mission will need to endure bombardment by radiation and high-energy particles surrounding Jupiter.

Fungi piggybacking on space missions is dangerous to astronaut health and spacecraft equipment, but studying its behavior is also useful for long-term space ...

They're all okay, and hopefully, we can learn a lot about radiation exposure from the event.

A recent research paper by top level researchers from all over the world has been released stating: Mars declared unsafe for humans.

Scientists are studying the possible impacts of the hazard on astronauts who will travel to the moon

In early September 1859, the Northern Lights could suddenly be seen as far south as the Caribbean. The cause was a geomagnetic solar storm—specifically a coronal mass ejection, now dubbed the Carrington Event, after the astronomer who recorded it.

Ancient bacteria might be sleeping beneath the surface of Mars, where it has been shielded from the harsh radiation of space for millions of years, according to new research.

Watch NASA's Artemis I detail its readiness to kickstart humanity's return to the moon.