The Latest Breaking News from Radiation

Decades of telescope data from the Hubble Space Telescope and other observatories reveals that solar radiation triggers Neptune’s clouds.

Scientists found that people exposed to radiation through work may have a higher cancer risk than previously thought

Scientists found that people exposed to radiation through work may have a higher cancer risk than previously thought.

So, you want a summer tan the natural way, but skin cancer is a major fear. Imy Brighty-Potts reports.

ISRO's Chandrayaan 3 mission launched on July 21 to slingshot to the moon and decelerate before descending. Given the harsh conditions of space, the mission has been designed with advanced engineering techniques, including radiation-hardened electronics, to protect the spacecraft from the solar wind, outgassing, radiation, and other issues.

After observing gamma rays coming from the sun for six years, researchers at the HAWC observatory in Mexico have found an excess of very high-energy gamma rays emerging as a result of the interaction between cosmic rays and the sun’s magnetic field. Researchers currently don’t have an explanation for this…

St. Louis-area activists who have been fighting for government compensation for people with illnesses potentially connected to Manhattan Project nuclear contamination won a major victory this week with support from the president

Ultraviolet radiation is associated with the damage to DNA in study published in the journal Frontiers in Aging.

President Joe Biden says he’s open to granting assistance for people sickened by exposure to radiation during nuclear weapons testing, including in New Mexico, where the world’s first atomic bomb was tested in 1945

Shade is a simple low-tech tool and a major gamechanger 

A powerful solar flare disrupted radio and navigation signals across North America on Monday and prompted space weather forecasters to issue warnings because of energetic particles hitting Earth.