Mehr Un Nisa, a postdoctoral research associate at Michigan State University and co-author of a new paper about the findings released in the journal Physical Review Letters on Aug. 3, issued a ...

Decreasing solar activity could make the journey to Mars and back riskier for astronauts, a new study warns. The sun's magnetic field acts as a barrier to high-energy galactic cosmic rays, which ...

An explosion from the sun blasted radiation into space, reaching the Earth, Mars, and the moon in 2021. These particles cannot harm humans on Earth, but they may harm people in space, research shows.

A potent follow-up solar flare, which occurred Friday (Jan. 27, 2012), just days after the Sun launched the biggest coronal mass ejection (CME) seen in nearly a decade, delivered a powerful radiation ...

Imagining every drop of Earth’s water hurled into the Sun sounds like a last-ditch cosmic fire extinguisher, but the physics ...

While scientists have known for a century that ionizing radiation can cause cancer, modern srudies strive to uncover potential negatives of radiation across the spectrum. A corny German commercial ...

Here on Earth, the ingredients for life to survive, thrive, evolve, and sustain itself on our world have all coexisted without fail for billions of years. In addition to all the atoms and molecules ...

In a pioneer study, the ovaries of women in the late reproductive age range (30-40) were discovered to secrete more of the AMH hormone during the summer, likely due to increased exposure to ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Visible light can damage the skin, but sun radiation emits far more blue light than digital screens in contact ...

A recent study led by researchers at the University at Albany finds that exposure to sustained sunny, hot and humid weather can trigger and increase symptoms of mental health disorders. The study ...