Waves in the plasma trailing behind Earth are responsible for making the northern lights dance in the sky, but according to new research, they also create another cosmic wonder. Known as chorus waves, ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The blazing-fast particles that whirl through Earth's radiation belts are propelled mostly by ...

Researchers from HSE University and the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences analyzed seven years of data from the ERG (Arase) satellite and, for the first time, provided a ...

Encircling the Earth, within its magnetosphere, are two concentric, doughnut-shaped radiation belts known as the Van Allen belts. The Van Allen belts swell and recede in response to incoming energy ...

Improvements to radiation therapy aim to better target gynecologic tumors while sparing healthy tissue. Jane Fitch and Sharica Lewis are two women living in different parts of the country, born 20 ...

The detection of a predicted universal background of gravitational waves rippling across the fabric of space-time was announced last Wednesday by the NANOGrav consortium of over 190 scientists at more ...

Purists insist that the spacetime ripples just discovered by the Advanced LIGO observatories should be called “gravitational” waves. Which in itself is just a shorthand way of saying radiation of ...

Doctors are reporting improved survival in men with advanced prostate cancer who received an experimental drug that delivers radiation directly to tumor cells. Few such drugs are approved now, but the ...

People are terrified that they’re being exposed to radiation all the time, whether from a distant nuclear accident or the mobile device snuggled against their head. Generally, they are wrong. Here are ...