For a few hours each lunar day, the radiation environment near the moon quietly shifts. Measurements now suggest that parts ...

Ultraviolet radiation (UVR) is a pervasive environmental stressor whose intensification, driven by stratospheric ozone fluctuations and climate change, poses considerable risks to fish and aquatic ...

China’s Chang’e-4 lander, which touched down on the lunar farside in January 2019, has spent more than two years collecting ...

Forty years after the reactor explosion, the wildlife around Chernobyl has recovered in strange and unexpected ways.

Background radiation is the invisible radiation that is always present in our environment. It comes from a variety of sources, both natural and man-made. Natural sources include cosmic rays from space ...

Here on Earth, there are ever-present concerns related to the presence of radiation. Some have worried that we may be exposing ourselves to radiation from our many electronics, though thankfully, the ...

Space is a harsh environment. We’re all familiar with the big risks from television – asteroids, solar flares, lack of air, extreme temperatures, and the occasional testy alien ships. What we don’t ...