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Aside from being disconcertingly cute, tardigrades are also famous for the fact that they are nearly indestructible. These tiny creatures…

NASA has released the clearest image yet of Earth’s magnetospheric radiation belts. But the spacecraft that accomplished this feat wasn’t…

Expand / Sandia National Laboratories’ Z Machine in action. The old joke that the dinosaurs went extinct because we didn’t…

A base below the surface of the moon may be needed to protect moon residents from radiation.Shutterstock/Shiva Shankara To protect…

Expanding / An artist’s illustration of the Europa Clipper spacecraft’s close flyby of Jupiter’s icy moon. There is currently no…

Syntrichia caninervis in Hackberry Canyon, ColoradoLee Lentz / Alamy A hardy moss found in desert regions around the world can…

Many of the sources we encounter in daily life have very low radiation doses, so there is no need to…

NASA’s Earth Radiation Balance satellite is expected to burn up in the atmosphere. Here we see the ATV Jules Verne…

The world faces “probably the most dangerous” decade since the end of World War Two, Russian President Vladimir Putin has…