NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory is approaching the end of its remarkable journey in space, but it is still revealing ...

Deep space travel comes with a huge potential downside—radiation exposure that can kill an astronaut either quickly or slowly ...

NASA’s SPHEREx space telescope has revealed striking differences in the atmospheres of brown dwarfs, mysterious objects that ...

One of the main health concerns of living and working in space is the long-term exposure to high levels of radiation. NASA scientists have developed a new device to monitor radiation exposure to ...

Astronauts face deadly cosmic radiation, but SpaceX, NASA, and ESA are testing hydrogel shields made from diaper tech. This ...

Washington, April 7 (IANS) NASA is preparing to launch on Saturday a super-pressure balloon about the size of a football stadium to carry a pioneering telescope designed to detect ultra-high-energy ...

NASA’s Artemis II astronauts witnessed something extraordinary while flying around the Moon: tiny flashes of light suddenly ...

The Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) mission will help researchers better understand the boundary of the heliosphere, the space agency announced on Friday. The heliosphere is a huge ...

Extreme temperatures, intense solar radiation, no air to speak of — the surface of the moon has long been considered too hostile for life to hang on. Then an Israeli probe, Beresheet, crashed on the ...

Cosmic rays are made primarily of protons with a few electrons sprinkled in, and they can reach energies even higher than what human-made accelerators can produce. Considering human-made accelerators, ...

When it comes to brightness, it’s hard to outshine the sun. But in new NASA images, the moon sparkles brighter thanks to a telescope that can detect high-energy radiation. NASA’s Fermi space telescope ...